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Beechwood
Peppard Common, United Kingdom
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Beechwood
Peppard Common, United Kingdom
Firm
Type
STATUS
Built
YEAR
2013
SIZE
3000 sqft - 5000 sqft
BUDGET
$500K - 1M
The brief
Spratley Studios were asked to create a home with four bedrooms with en-suite accommodation, an open-plan living/dining space, study and garage. The home needed to embrace and engage its site, maximising views both through and from the house to the surrounding open countryside. The clients wanted the sustainable and low energy consuming home to achieve Level 4 in The Code for Sustainable Homes.
The design
Beechwood sits on the edge of an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB) in Oxfordshire; a position that made it a challenging site on which to design a contemporary home.
Designs to replace the 1960s brick and tile clad house were undertaken with respect to its context in both scale and design, thereby avoiding any increased impact when viewed from the AONB and neighbouring residences. Employing high quality materials, simple detailing and robust forms, the design produced a contemporary and sustainable home appropriate to its context.
The materials used in the project push conventional design boundaries but the scheme was designed such that they sit together harmoniously in the surrounding woodland setting, reflecting the colours and textures of nature. Blue/black engineering brickwork combine with pre-weathered corten steel cladding - chosen to be evocative of the Beech trees on site - enabling the house to bleed into the landscape. The use of natural colours and textures helps to further immerse the house in its site and surroundings and recreates the essence of vernacular buildings of South Oxfordshire.
The innovative design means that Beechwood stretches out to engage the site and in doing so the shape of the building has created external zones with individual character and function. In order to fully utilise the building’s orientation, the kitchen, dining and living accommodation was located to the rear of the property where the views were of the AONB. Engineers designed the living area ‘box’ that enabled the design to have no supporting columns in front of the huge length of glass at the back. Care was taken to ensure the views were maximised without overlooking adjacent property. A carefully constructed vista from the main entrance provides outstanding site lines straight through the house to the sun terrace at the rear and the rolling countryside beyond.
Utility and service areas are located in the central section and bedrooms are located at the front of the house.
Spratley Studios were asked to create a home with four bedrooms with en-suite accommodation, an open-plan living/dining space, study and garage. The home needed to embrace and engage its site, maximising views both through and from the house to the surrounding open countryside. The clients wanted the sustainable and low energy consuming home to achieve Level 4 in The Code for Sustainable Homes.
The design
Beechwood sits on the edge of an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB) in Oxfordshire; a position that made it a challenging site on which to design a contemporary home.
Designs to replace the 1960s brick and tile clad house were undertaken with respect to its context in both scale and design, thereby avoiding any increased impact when viewed from the AONB and neighbouring residences. Employing high quality materials, simple detailing and robust forms, the design produced a contemporary and sustainable home appropriate to its context.
The materials used in the project push conventional design boundaries but the scheme was designed such that they sit together harmoniously in the surrounding woodland setting, reflecting the colours and textures of nature. Blue/black engineering brickwork combine with pre-weathered corten steel cladding - chosen to be evocative of the Beech trees on site - enabling the house to bleed into the landscape. The use of natural colours and textures helps to further immerse the house in its site and surroundings and recreates the essence of vernacular buildings of South Oxfordshire.
The innovative design means that Beechwood stretches out to engage the site and in doing so the shape of the building has created external zones with individual character and function. In order to fully utilise the building’s orientation, the kitchen, dining and living accommodation was located to the rear of the property where the views were of the AONB. Engineers designed the living area ‘box’ that enabled the design to have no supporting columns in front of the huge length of glass at the back. Care was taken to ensure the views were maximised without overlooking adjacent property. A carefully constructed vista from the main entrance provides outstanding site lines straight through the house to the sun terrace at the rear and the rolling countryside beyond.
Utility and service areas are located in the central section and bedrooms are located at the front of the house.
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