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| PROJECT:
House at Piper's End |
| LOCATION:
Hertfordshire, UK |
| CLIENT: Private |
| BUDGET:
Undisclosed |
| COMPLETION:
2008 |
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Currently nearing completion, this new family house replaces a
delapidated farmhouse on 2 acre site in rural Hertfordshire. Planning
permission for the house, which is within the Greenbelt, was awarded
because the new house was demonstrated to be more sustainable in
the long term than refurbishing the existing building.
The design of the new house is sensitve to its setting within an
existing, mature landscape, including an orchard belonging to the
original house.
The house and the new landscaping surrounding it are conceived
in plan as five strips, characterised by different materials: a thicket
of silver birch; a timber cabinet; a vitrine of timber framed glass; a
loggia of steel columns supporting a perforate metal canopy and a
concrete reflecting pool. |
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