Suurupi House Extension is also known as “a matchbox” or a bird’s nest, perhaps it is due to its unique appearance. The house was designed with fascinating walls made of thousands of crisscrossed small wooden sticks. It is this features that give the house an exceptionally strong character.

Opening up the residential park into three strips allowed residential building to be interwoven with the peat landscape. All houses have a parking space in one of the buildings’ underground garages, which also contain parking space for visitors.The Paswerk plan includes 119 houses, 78 of which are patio houses and 41 canal houses and town houses. The single-storey patio houses have roof gardens and terraces on top.All the houses face south. The town houses have large façades and conservatories on the south side. The patio houses have their living area on the north side of the patio, creating an outdoor space on the south side. The houses are highly energy-efficient. The houses are positioned across the site in a way that allows the existing valuable trees to remain in place between the houses or new ones to be planted.

Three further gallery spaces are created as separate blocks within the building’s form. The Link Gallery features a fully glazed wall offering views across a reeded pond and its polished concrete floor, cast concrete walls and louvered concrete ceiling contrast dramatically with the luminescent white box interior of the Main Gallery. The Digital Gallery is a black box gallery designed to accommodate video art and installation. Dramatic arts are showcased in the George Bernard Shaw Theatre, located in the South West corner of the building.

The manipulated spaces overlapped and borrowed the amenity and context of it’s surrounding environment.The perforated house is our response to establish an alternative language to the accepted notion of our cultural attitude towards critical questions of identity and heritage.

he design borrows from the existing building and includes a rose motif which is a reference to the time when the building was constructed during the baroque period in the 18th century.