Gatwick Private Hotel

The Gatwick Private Hotel project transforms two disused ground-floor shells into a home and studio through a process of architectural excavation and adaptive reuse. Conceived as a masterplan for domesticity and change over time, the design supports shifting patterns of inhabitation as family life evolves. Rather than overwrite the existing fabric, the approach is one of careful revealing—an archaeological exposition that brings the building’s layered history into dialogue with contemporary use. Fragmented walls, exposed linings, and structural scars are retained and reframed, allowing past configurations to inform new spatial arrangements. Architectural interventions are minimal, precisely inserted to support flexibility and continuity. The result is a home that evolves with its occupants, grounded in a material and spatial memory that resists erasure.