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| Dennis Sharp Architects |
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| Listed buildings: 20th Century |
| DSA are internationally recognised experts on the history, alteration and renovation of 20th Century Structures. Dennis Sharp was founder member of the 20th Century Society and Chair of DoCoMoMo. DSA contributed to the review carried out by English Heritage in 2001 and are regularly consulted on matters relating to historic structures. DSA founded the highly successful Listed Building Show, held at Hatfield House every spring. Flat Roof House, Buckinghamshire DSA have renovated and extended an innovative house originally designed by one of Britain�s leading Modern Movement architects, Colin Lucas. The house was designed in 1934 for a Client who had read Le Corbusier�s Vers une Architecture and wanted a Modern House. The thin wall 4� unrendered concrete construction provided a thermal and building challenge. The house was totally renovated and transformed with high levels of insulation and eco-friendly devises including a condensing boiler. Although the floor area has been substantially increased the original form of the house has been retained and you have to do a double take to see what has been added. Refs �Colin Lucas's pioneering 1933 Flat Roofed House in Little Frieth�, Building Design, no. 1452, 2000 Aug. 11, p. 1. Winter, J.; �The White Stuff� (Original architect (1934): Colin Lucas, architects for restoration and additions: Dennis Sharp Architects), RIBA Journal, vol. 108, no. 3, 2001 Mar., p. 62-66. Kemp House, Hertfordshire This innovative brick Modern Movement house was designed in 1934 as one of three houses for an extended family by Mary Crawley Mead. Mr & Mrs Adams commissioned DSA to extend and make alterations to the house to accommodate a person in a wheelchair. Inspired by the �ultra modern� ethos of the original design DSA used new �high tech� materials and systems to make an exciting new addition to the house. Stainless steel eaves and frameless glazing give the new extension a sharp new edge to the design. The �garden room� enables wheel chair access to the garden terrace and carefully avoids unsightly grabrails. Conservation officers were pleased with the modern approach used by DSA to extend this important example of Hertfordshire Modernism. Torilla, Hertfordshire DS was an expert witness at the Planning Inquiry to save F R S Yorke�s first concrete house near Hatfield. As a result of the research and evidence presented at the Inquiry this house was saved from destruction and lovingly restored by Alan Charlton, a well-known artist international artist. The house is constructed out of 4� thin wall in situ-poured concrete. |
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