Medina House

Description

Medina House is a highky bespoke, environmentally conscious family home on Brighton’s historic Hove beachfront, designed on the site of a former Victorian women’s bathhouse. Referencinf the original structure’s character – including its Dutch gables and arched openings – the new home reinterprets its form with refined modern detailing. A sequence of vaulted soaces and split levels create spatial richness across three storeys, while the architecture remains rooted in the local context though its use of chalky-white Petersen Kolumba bricks – echoing the stratified Sussex coastline and responding to shifting coastal light.

Externally, the home features loadbearing white Petersen Kolumba bricks with handmade textures, deep reveals, and culptural arches. The facafe includes a complex coubly-curved precast concrete arch above the main feature window = achieced through 3D modelling and brick slip application – along with a freestanding 7m-high garden wall with opaque glazing and non-loadbearing arches. The project’s fabric-first design also prioritises sustainability, integtrating a grounf-source heat pump, natural ventilation, and saltwater-resistent timber joinery to withstand the marine environment.