peckham
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architect: reenie elliott
building type+location: house refurbishment peckham
invisible elements:
- diminutive house situated on a street lined with giant trees
- previous occupants of house included 7 dwarfs
- neighbour named heidi
- three teddy bears found in abandoned garden during siteworks
- garden occupied by fox seeking to dine on grapes
- dolls house: in response to these childlike fictions discovered on the site, the architectural treatment attempts to create the experience of a full scale architectural model, playing with scale and perception
- 8 types of wildlife were found to inhabit the abandoned house. birds and bats nested in the roof, bees in the chimney, rats and mice under the floors, woodworm in the floors, and cats and foxes in the garden
- several cans of guinness and a newspaper announcing the invasion of the falklands were discovered within the roof and floor of an illegal extension.
client: myself
completion date: a womans work is never done