ArchDaily | Broadcasting Architecture Worldwide https://www.archdaily.com/ Thu, 29 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://assets.adsttc.com/doodles/archdaily-logo-feedly.svg 026CB6 https://www.archdaily.com/1187551/cottage-archicraft Thu, 29 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Nana Dokua https://www.archdaily.com/1187551/cottage-archicraft The site already had a cottage on it, but the existing structure was beyond saving and had to come down. Local regulations set the terms for what could replace it: the new building had to sit on the same footprint as the original, keep to one above-ground floor plus a residential attic, and any sheds or verandas added on top of that could not exceed 10 percent of the existing built-up area, and none of it was allowed to face the forest side of the property. Rather than treat those rules as a constraint to work around, we used them to set the whole massing of the house, a simple gabled form close in size and shape to what stood there before.

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