Proposed ancillary leisure building
We are delighted to showcase our proposal for this ancillary outbuilding; a swimming pool and gym designed to enchant the homeowner client.
The client approached Unity Architects seeking our professional skills to develop proposals for a leisure building that is ancillary to the host 6-bedroom dwelling.
Lawful development consent for the creation of a swimming pool outbuilding had already been obtained by others. However, the client wanted to explore a more expressive scheme and therefore appointed Unity Architects to guide them through the applicable RIBA work stages, to arrive at a building design which is functionally efficient and poetically beautiful.
The building seeks to surpass its core function as an ancillary outbuilding, by organising and orchestrating its context. This involves shaping pedestrian movement towards, around and through the building to other areas of what is an exceptionally large garden.
The cantilevered roof design serves as a portal, leading you from the host dwelling, framing distant views and physically connecting you to the depths of the land ownership.
“A simple arrangement of vertical and horizontal objects, punctuated with glass openings. The building holds space and frames space. You can simultaneously look at it and through it. The inside is animated by the surrounding landscape, the changing of the seasons and the variable play of light.”
– Jason Laity BA(hons) DipArch DipAP RIBA