Court Hay is located in the village of Easton-in-Gordano, in North Somerset, England, about 7km northwest of Bristol city centre. The village is part of the civil parish of Pill and Easton-in-Gordano and was first recorded in the Domesday Book of 1086.
Daniel Koo Architects was appointed to carry out a study to extend and improve a house built in the 1970s. The house had undergone changes and alterations overtime and is in need of partial renovation and a new extension. The property boundary is partially defined by the bend of a brook that no longer exists on site and partially defined by historical plot division and land sale, resulting in the peculiar orientation and geometry of the garden.
The proposal establishes and heightens, the otherwise absent relationship between the house and the unique character of the garden landscape, whilst improving the internal relationship and quality of the living spaces. The extension adds a new orientation to the existing house, through a new sunroom that acts as the hinge between the internal and external living spaces, whilst generating a L-shaped plan with windows and surfaces that establishes and frames specific relationships between interior and the garden space.