The Cathedral Group (now U+I) asked 20 of the UK’s most exciting architects and designers to create a 21st century doll’s house for exhibition and auction at Bonhams in aid of disabled children’s charity KIDS. Each design was required to include at least one feature that makes life easier for a child with a disability.

The Inside Out House is an inclusive doll’s house for all children, whatever their needs and abilities. The house is conceived as two distinct elements. The first element is a concrete house with living bonsai tree and moss garden/herb garden, which sits outside. The second series of elements are individual oak rooms, hollowed out in bright colours that can be inserted into the concrete house.

When it is raining, children can play inside building different compositions with the oak rooms. On a sunny day, the children can play outside, inserting and balancing the oak rooms on/in the concrete house located in the garden. This is not a toy to be forgotten, but a playful and permanent sculptural form.