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Contemporary Farmhouse
Contemporary Farmhouse
Hertfordshire, England, United Kingdom
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Contemporary Farmhouse
Hertfordshire, England, United Kingdom
Type
STATUS
Built
YEAR
2024
SIZE
5000 sqft - 10,000 sqft
BUDGET
Undisclosed
The new house sits on a picturesque, rural site in North Hertfordshire, overlooking rolling hills and fields. Our clients, both of whom grew up in the countryside asked us to design a new family home for the site that would be redolent of the houses of their youth but that was clearly, also, of its own time. It should also be one that would be constructed to take full advantage of the spectacular views, whilst sensitively embedding itself into the rural landscape.
In order to break down the massing of the proposed accommodation, the house is broken down into the Main House and three ‘separate’ outbuildings, all of which are detailed differently and use recognisable, simple materials that draw on the local residential and agricultural vernacular. The three smaller buildings that surround the large, central ‘farmhouse’ building house a Flower Room, a Games room that peeks above a Garden Wall and a separate accommodation wing.
Unlike more traditional farmhouses, the project benefits from a fabric first approach with high levels of insulation and air tightness. It utilises an MVHR system, stratified thermal tanks that can be tailored to the occupancy levels in the house, air source heat pumps and an array of PVs on an existing piggery that, in certain conditions, allow the building to run independently from the grid.
In order to break down the massing of the proposed accommodation, the house is broken down into the Main House and three ‘separate’ outbuildings, all of which are detailed differently and use recognisable, simple materials that draw on the local residential and agricultural vernacular. The three smaller buildings that surround the large, central ‘farmhouse’ building house a Flower Room, a Games room that peeks above a Garden Wall and a separate accommodation wing.
Unlike more traditional farmhouses, the project benefits from a fabric first approach with high levels of insulation and air tightness. It utilises an MVHR system, stratified thermal tanks that can be tailored to the occupancy levels in the house, air source heat pumps and an array of PVs on an existing piggery that, in certain conditions, allow the building to run independently from the grid.
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