Fife By Bossley Architects

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A photograph showcasing the outdoor living area of the Fife residence, featuring the front facade of the property, taken from an exterior viewpoint.

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An image that showcases the exterior architectural features of the house and the expansive open space surrounding it.
An image that showcases the exterior architectural features of the house and the expansive open space surrounding it.
A photograph that emphasizes the upper exterior of the house, with a focus on the orange color scheme of the walls and the unique design of the roof.
A photograph that emphasizes the upper exterior of the house, with a focus on the orange color scheme of the walls and the unique design of the roof.
A photograph that captures a close-up shot of the concrete stairway located on the side of the house.
A photograph that captures a close-up shot of the concrete stairway located on the side of the house.
An image captured from a distance that highlights the outdoor dining area and the way in which the surrounding plants and trees seamlessly blend with the house.
An image captured from a distance that highlights the outdoor dining area and the way in which the surrounding plants and trees seamlessly blend with the house.
A photograph of the mixed-use room, which serves as both a living and office area, highlighting the sliding glass door leading to the outdoor space.
A photograph of the mixed-use room, which serves as both a living and office area, highlighting the sliding glass door leading to the outdoor space.
An image that emphasizes the artistic objects and furnishings within the living area, while also showcasing the wide sliding glass door leading to the outdoor space.
An image that emphasizes the artistic objects and furnishings within the living area, while also showcasing the wide sliding glass door leading to the outdoor space.
A captured image of the kitchen from a distance, emphasizing its minimalist interior design.
A captured image of the kitchen from a distance, emphasizing its minimalist interior design.
An photograph that captures both the dining and kitchen area, highlighting the concrete slab with concrete fins that support the upper level.
An photograph that captures both the dining and kitchen area, highlighting the concrete slab with concrete fins that support the upper level.
A photograph that focuses on the small kitchen area.
A photograph that focuses on the small kitchen area.

A Story of Loving Iterations: a house for an artist and an architect, to accommodate expanding and contracting family and guests. A place which is constantly developing, without ever having had an ‘end-game’ in sight. It has gone from 3 bedrooms to four, back to 3 bedrooms and workspace, and could well revert to 4 bedrooms if required.

A place that has grown to accept the occupants and the occupants have grown to understand the house, over 20 years and multiple alterations. If it had been designed and built in the early days it would have been a different house.

It is not about photo-ready tidiness, it is about living in comfort with architectural delights: the central bathroom with a view through to the garden, the way early morning shadows glance across the ply and GRC fire surround, the informally hung artworks, the wavy handrail up the irregular entry steps……

The house is a traditional timber framed bungalow and alterations have continued in the same system. Downstairs excavated areas are concrete slab with concrete fins to support the upper level. Concrete has been introduced in the gardens to continue the theme of a roughly built curving driveway wall present from the original house.

The rear garden has been terraced with concrete walls and pond, and an in-situ concrete ‘bus shelter’ provides seating and containment to the rear courtyard.

New extensions are designed as floating planes of colour, clad in fibre cement sheet with exposed fixings, to identify new elements from earlier iterations.

Internally, silver-beech plywood and GRC have been used to create streams of identity flowing through the existing spaces. Variety has been celebrated: there has been no desire to make all the rooms consistent, for example different skirting details in different rooms quietly suggest the different periods of construction.

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