![Rustic House / Urban Agency - Facade, Windows](https://images.adsttc.com/media/images/5af1/a8cc/f197/cc61/1900/02f6/medium_jpg/02032018_AR04_Kerry_144.jpg?1525786795)
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Architects: Urban Agency
- Area: 58 m²
- Year: 2018
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Photographs:Paul Tierney
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Manufacturers: DAMP PROOF CAVITY DRAINAGE MEMBRANE, Forbes & Lomax, SGS Structural Glazing Specialists, Schiedel, traditional lime
![Rustic House / Urban Agency - Bed, Bedroom](https://images.adsttc.com/media/images/5af1/917c/f197/cce6/1700/0194/newsletter/02032018_AR04_Kerry_114.jpg?1525780836)
“The best preventive remedy to ageing is architecture”.
How to design and build a project that will take few decades to complete “on time” for its owner retirement plan? In this project, ageing and weathering serve as a critical design tool for thinking about how architecture might intercept the changing state of weathering on site.
![Rustic House / Urban Agency - Image 30 of 33](https://images.adsttc.com/media/images/5af1/8fdf/f197/cce6/1700/018b/newsletter/01._RH.jpg?1525780434)
On a sloping rural site with views over the land, the form and orientation of an existing cottage generates two further, similar buildings, which offer a more complete inhabitation of the ground.
![Rustic House / Urban Agency - Windows](https://images.adsttc.com/media/images/5af1/9284/f197/cc61/1900/0286/medium_jpg/02032018_AR04_Kerry_129.jpg?1525781098)
The first, a south-facing bedroom emerges from the hill; the second, a bathroom with double height shower of traditional Moroccan construction is largely contained within it.
![Rustic House / Urban Agency - Image 31 of 33](https://images.adsttc.com/media/images/5af1/906a/f197/cce6/1700/018f/medium_jpg/Sections_Rustic_House_A2_150e-Layout1.jpg?1525780579)
The three buildings are connected by a subterranean rooflit corridor whose walls retain the earth. These are sheds, entirely made out of in situ concrete (walls and roofs) and finished with a natural rust iron pigments usually used for gardening, making reference in color and form to vernacular construction.
![Rustic House / Urban Agency - Waterfront, Coast](https://images.adsttc.com/media/images/5af1/a9a9/f197/cc61/1900/02fe/medium_jpg/02032018_AR04_Kerry_151.jpg?1525787022)