Detail of timber stairway. Eco Vale, London, United Kingdom. Architect: Chance de Silva Architects, 2015.
Eco Vale is three eco-houses designed by Chance de Silva in partnership with Mike Nightingale (founder of Nightingale Associates). The homes are entered through a shared courtyard of decking and rain gardens. Each house’s living/kitchen space opens onto this deck, and in addition each has a private balcony at the upper bedroom level overlooking the garden and providing distant views. Rooflights and corner windows bring light into the rear of the ground floor living room down open plan stairs. The interiors are ‘customised’ by salvage: art school benches for kitchen worktops, oak chevron floors and old pine kitchen unit doors. All the ‘eco-tech’ kit is tucked away under the stairs and along the back of the retaining wall, out of sight. Externally the building nestles into its site, tying together the differing levels of neighbouring private and council housing. The project is bedded in by raking and stepping fences that wrap around the courtyard, bikes and refuse stores.
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