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| PROJECT:
House at Piper's End |
| LOCATION:
Hertfordshire, UK |
| CLIENT: Private |
| BUDGET:
Undisclosed |
| COMPLETION:
2008 |
AWARDS:
RIBA Award, 2009: Winner
Manser Medal, 2009: Shortlisted
AAI Award, 2009: Special Mention
Building Futures Design Excellence Award, 2009: Highly Commended |
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Tthis
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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