Perched high above the beaches of the Gower Peninsula, Maich Swift Architects\u2019 Rhossili House is an elegant fusion of traditional forms and minimalist architecture details; a wooden house informed by its context.\nThis part of South Wales is wild and rugged, with a long history of settlement and agriculture. Although...
Maich Swift Architects’ Rhossili House is a minimalist wooden house that makes the most of its dramatic Welsh surrounds
As a result, there was extra scrutiny on the design, which occupies a prominent clifftop site at the edge of the village. As well as consolidating and incorporating two existing outbuildings, the bulk of the project involved the construction of a new solid timber house. On the elevation facing the sea, large frameless windows make the most of the views, while the rear of the house is defined by a sequence of smaller, uniformly sized square windows and rooflights. A top-lit central stair core forms the heart of the house, with four bedrooms and a bathroom on the upper floor, three of which have dual aspects.
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