Architecture
The Rest
A Grade-II listed convalescent home reborn as 68 apartments and a new 38-bed home above the sea.
- Location
- Porthcawl, United Kingdom
- Project type
- Architecture
- Scale
- 11 acres · heritage reuse
- Role
- RIBA Part II · Rio Architects
- Year
- 2010
The brief
A historic Grade-II listed property — built 136 years ago with the backing of Florence Nightingale — sits on eleven acres surrounded by sea and golf course.
The design
The proposal converts the main building and annexe into 68 apartments and adds a new 38-bedroom convalescent home in the grounds, recycling demolished heritage material into the new fabric.
Details
An intentionally lower roofline relates new to old, while passive solar strategies — orientation, thermal mass, daylight and insulation — make the most of the southern aspect.
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