Architect Marta Nowicka used an entirely reclaimed palette of scaffolding planks, hollow concrete blocks and wood-wool boards to bring a "gritty, unrefined" feel to this small studio in East Sussex.

Named DOM Studio, the building was conceived as a "year-round sanctuary" alongside Nowicka's own home in Camber Sands, occupying a leftover plot of land just 20 metres from the sea.

Nowicka sought to give the studio a rough, monolithic feel, using a palette of reclaimed materials and an angular form that deflects sea winds.

"The initial concept sought to echo the monolithic, protective language of the neighbouring sea wall," she told Dezeen.

"To mitigate the brutal southwesterly winds while maximising solar gain, the architecture abandons the conventional vertical facade. Instead, the elevation sweeps fluidly from the roofline down into a waist-high deck," he added.

"Emulating the brow of a ship rising from the landscape, this nautical language avoids coastal cliché. Instead, it is a direct, structural response to the elements of the sea."

DOM Studio's angular roof is actually a parabolic curve, which Nowicka said emerged from an "improvisational dialogue" with the builder involving cutting reclaimed scaffolding boards to fit the curved trusses.

The building's interior layout was guided by this distinctive profile, with a higher space containing a work area that overlooks the landscape through a wide picture window.

Opposite, a more intimate seating area and log burner are tucked under a lower area where the roof slopes downwards, while a bathroom and an infrared sauna occupy the studio's eastern end.

DOM Studio's interior is enveloped by raw blockwork walls, a ceiling of wood-wool panels and shelving made from recovered wooden boards.

"As the site was a bit of 'scrap' land purchased off a neighbour, the idea was to use 'scraps' to build it," Nowicka said.

"The exposed blockwork, sourced as 'bin ends' from construction sites, is irregular in colour and adds a gritty, unrefined grounding to the space. The floor is a sand coloured monolithic concrete floor poured over the slab," she added.

"The ceiling and sloping walls are clad between the joists in Savolit board, a highly dense, textured acoustic panel made from shredded timber off-cuts, providing exceptional thermal properties and a tactile, raw interior skin."

Previous projects by Nowicka include a three-storey home on the site of a former garage in Dalston, London, which is clad in cedar shingles.

Elsewhere in Camber Sands, RX Architects created Seabreeze, a coastal holiday home in East Sussex covered in smooth pink concrete.

The photography is by Voytek Ketz.