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The steepness of the private gardens had led the client’s property, a Victorian detached house with 1980s extension, to turn its back on the outdoor space, while the condition of the garden’s concrete terraces had become precarious.  \nThe project reorientates the house towards this hillside while piecing together a new route up the rear garden. This interplay of built form and route, along with the central external terrace, now provides the focus of the property.  \nThe house has been carefully renovated, and the poorly constructed addition replaced with a gallery space. From this gallery, the kitchen and dining room are now connected, and a few steps up is a new garden room. Further up the hill is a study, accessible only from the outside. Where previously the rooms were disconnected and lacked natural light, there are now multiple routes, and light is brought into the depths ofthe interior. To reduce embodied carbon, the concrete terraces have been repaired rather than replaced. A series of ground anchors hold steady the retaining walls, identifiable through their distinctive circular caps, while concrete repairs patch cracks.  \nHugh Strange, director, Hugh Strange Architects  \n47  \nThe careful repair of the concrete terraces of a steeply sloping rear garden in Hastings suggests a metaphor of darning: of precise interventions of anchoring and patching, in place of demolition and replacement, stitching the dilapidated site towards reuse. On to this mended hillside, a series of lightweight timber structures allow the existing Victorian dwelling to reorientate towards the outside spaces. A sense of interconnection, natural light and far, layered views now replaces the house’s previously dark and isolated ground-floor rooms. A new route, formed with both repaired and new elements, winds up the rear garden, tying buildings and landscape together.  \nWords Michael Dillon Photography Rory Gaylor  \nThe landscape of West Hill in Hastings is characterised by the steep transition from the elevated Wealden basin to the coastal  \nseafront. Streets are lined with formal Victorian-era homes while terraced gardens and retaining walls, marked by the coastal weather, descend the slope to the backs of the houses.  \nThis terraced condition poses a challenge to building house extensions, notably the potential investment needed to hold backor cut into the slope, and the dark, sunken spaces adjacent to the buildings. House on a Hill is as much a reworking of the fabric of the existing Victorian villa as it is an extension. A number of new pavilions to the rear expand the interior and negotiate the challenging conditions, allowing the natural characteristics of the existing landscape to define the structure and atmosphere of this carefully adapted and extended home. The client, a small-scale property developer, hired architect Hugh Strange on the basis of his construction methodology. Strange’s work is typified by a humble reaction to site conditions and a resourceful  \ncelebration of typically concealed materials. Onsite, he spoke openly about the project’s construction, putting great weight on collaborating closely with a select group of consultantsand suppliers.  \nWith the experienced cl","cbCaiqlrOf2pRa65","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaiqlrOf2pRa65","pdf",3318471,"English","# Project data\n## Location and timeline\n## Area and construction cost\n## Design team and tools\n# Building study\n## Embracing the vertical\n## Site conditions and challenges\n## Renovation and new spatial routes\n## Construction approach and materials","[{\"question\":\"What is the main goal of the Hastings house project?\",\"answer\":\"To reorient the existing Victorian house toward the hillside and improve connections by extending the rear garden and creating new routes, terraces, and interior links.\"},{\"question\":\"How does the project reduce embodied carbon?\",\"answer\":\"It repairs the existing concrete terraces rather than replacing them, supported by ground anchors and targeted concrete crack repairs.\"},{\"question\":\"What types of new structures are added to the rear terraces?\",\"answer\":\"A new gallery replaces an earlier lean-to, and four new structures are introduced: three LVL pavilions and one galvanised steel pergola, arranged as independent stepped elements.\"}]","BS2_HASTINGS_HOUSE_AJ_250320 - Building study - House on a Hill | PDF",18]