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Crowbrook
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Ware, United Kingdom
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Crowbrook
Ware, United Kingdom
Project Featured on Feb 20, 2014
Set within a Conservation Area and with a beautiful well-established garden, Crowbrook is a striking new timber clad single storey house.
The client has rheumatoid arthritis and the brief was for; a fully accessible, spacious, environmentally efficient, beautiful, modern house. For convalescing and working from home the main bedroom must be at the heart of the house and five adult children mean sporadically used guest accommodation.
Overarching principles were established early on; circulation to be minimal, long views and the relationship to the garden to be emphasised, minimal space for staying guests, light and views to be maximised and simple materials to be used. These principles resulted in sliding doors, a language of projecting bay windows, long views composed through the house and flush thresholds allowing the space to run seamlessly from inside to outside. The centre of the plan has a ceiling raised from 2.4m to 4m capturing light from all directions and a star gazing mirror lined roof-light directly over the bath makes the internal bathroom gloriously light. Detailing is simple, clean and minimal with fixed glazing and opening solid panels creating slim elegant lines. The external cladding is carefully composed to meet seat, desk and worktop datums, no board is cut, wide and slim boards combined with turning the boards from horizontal to vertical at key openings make for subtle changes in the fenestration. A green copper flashing finishes the parapet with a zing.
The house is a breathing timber frame, fully filled with cellulose fibre insulation, clad in the local vernacular black boarding, set on a brick plinth and carefully orientated to maximise passive solar gain whilst reducing heat loss and solar glare. LED lighting, low energy water devices, PV’s, solar thermal panels and planted roof boost the benefits of the energy efficient construction and orientation.
The client has rheumatoid arthritis and the brief was for; a fully accessible, spacious, environmentally efficient, beautiful, modern house. For convalescing and working from home the main bedroom must be at the heart of the house and five adult children mean sporadically used guest accommodation.
Overarching principles were established early on; circulation to be minimal, long views and the relationship to the garden to be emphasised, minimal space for staying guests, light and views to be maximised and simple materials to be used. These principles resulted in sliding doors, a language of projecting bay windows, long views composed through the house and flush thresholds allowing the space to run seamlessly from inside to outside. The centre of the plan has a ceiling raised from 2.4m to 4m capturing light from all directions and a star gazing mirror lined roof-light directly over the bath makes the internal bathroom gloriously light. Detailing is simple, clean and minimal with fixed glazing and opening solid panels creating slim elegant lines. The external cladding is carefully composed to meet seat, desk and worktop datums, no board is cut, wide and slim boards combined with turning the boards from horizontal to vertical at key openings make for subtle changes in the fenestration. A green copper flashing finishes the parapet with a zing.
The house is a breathing timber frame, fully filled with cellulose fibre insulation, clad in the local vernacular black boarding, set on a brick plinth and carefully orientated to maximise passive solar gain whilst reducing heat loss and solar glare. LED lighting, low energy water devices, PV’s, solar thermal panels and planted roof boost the benefits of the energy efficient construction and orientation.
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