Rangers House.

01 — The Brief

A house designed around its site.

Rangers is a new build family home on a steeply sloping site above Shanklin, looking out over the Channel. The brief: a generous, light-filled house for family life, with living spaces that open directly to the garden and make the most of the view.

The design works with the slope rather than against it — using the level change to organise arrival, living and garden, and turning a difficult site into the project's defining asset. The main living space opens through full-height glazing that draws light deep into the plan.

The language is contemporary but grounded — natural timber and masonry that settle the house into its wooded setting from day one.

03 — Interior Architecture

Resolved from the inside out.

The interior was developed as a continuous design exercise alongside the architecture. Every fixed element — kitchen, joinery, stair, bathroom — was designed within the practice rather than selected from a catalogue.

The material palette is restrained: white oak, brushed plaster, honed limestone and matte black metalwork. Nothing competes; everything contributes. The kitchen occupies the full garden-facing width of the house; when the doors are open in summer the boundary between inside and outside almost disappears.