The Bunker Project
The new architecture was designed to insert and interweave into the existing structure, leaving the historic fabric (raw concrete) completely intact and uncontaminated as a volume.
Photo credit to Juilian Winslow | Build © Lincoln Miles & Lisa Traxler
Key Information
- Client: Private Client
- Architect: Lincoln Miles Architecture Ltd
- Location: Isle of Wight
Project Overview
The Bunker Project is a new dwelling connecting, responding, expressing a narrative with an existing WWII Radar Bunker and the surrounding coastal ‘Undercliff’ landscape. A collaboration between Artist and Architecture.
Brief scope of works
The new architecture was designed to insert and interweave into the existing structure, leaving the historic fabric (raw concrete) completely intact and uncontaminated as a volume. Lincoln Miles has two of his designs featured on Channel 4’s Grand Designs. He is an architect that seeks to invent something new and is not afraid to take risks. This project is no exception. It is innovative, experimental and breaks the mould of traditional design. From the inception of this project, Lincoln recognised the need to engage with a like minded Building Control Body to help him realise his dream. SOCOTEC Building Control Ltd enjoy a challenge and were just as determined to see this exceptional and unique project come to fruition. We fully embrace innovation, creative design and forward thinking, recognising the published guidance, such as the approved documents can often constrain your ambitions.
