Пляжный дом в Кенте Симона Кондера и Криса Неве

The shingle beach at Dungeness is a ghost town of battered shacks and boats. For a dozen miles the beach has given Kent a straight edge, but here it curls round the headland and slips past the mountainous nuclear power station that broods over the marshes. Before this dogleg is a bungalow sheathed in black rubber.
With its pitched roof and chimney it cuts a perfect house-shaped silhouette out of the scenery. Next to it, its opposite in every sense, is a 1950s Airstream caravan, one aluminium curve from beginning to end.
“I’ve always had a slightly spooky feeling here – that house, for instance, is full of worms,” says the architect of the rubber house, Simon Conder, pointing to the bait and tackle shop across the road. It takes a rugged type to make a home in this exposed and slightly post-apocalyptic spot, or an eye for unusual beauty – the filmmaker Derek Jarman’s cottage is a few hundred yards away. The couple that owns the rubber house concede that Dungeness is not everyone’s idea of the rural idyll, but it reminded them of one of their favourite places, the California desert. “There are very few places in England where the horizon is that open and that far away,” says one of the owners, and whereas in London she is dogged by lung problems, here she can breathe.
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Architectural Record | Residential Quarterly | Vista House (RU)
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