UK structure studio Richard Parr Associates has accomplished a single-storey household residence on a wild countryside web site in Oxfordshire.
Drawing on the native farmhouse typology, the house by Richard Parr Associates includes a sloped-roof brick construction clad with charred timber and topped with corrugated metallic roofing.
To higher body the views of the encircling panorama, the studio demolished an current construction and re-sited the house – opening every room as much as panoramic views.
The 350-metre-square house is break up into 4 distinct quarters unfold throughout two wings, every fronted with monolithic brick partitions.
A courtyard connecting the 2 wings centres the house and hosts a video games room wrapped with floor-to-ceiling home windows.
Inside, sliding doorways connecting the quarters supply the pliability to reinforce privateness or connectedness inside the house, whereas full-height openings across the perimeter lead out to a collection of paths that wrap across the residence.
All through the inside, polished concrete flooring are complemented by lime plaster partitions, stained ash joinery and wool ceilings, together with doorways lined with corten metal.
The massive household wing comprises an open-plan kitchen centred by a black-stained ash kitchen unit, together with a eating space and dwelling area.
Sliding doorways within the dwelling space lead out to an adjoining, sheltered outside seating space, full with a wood-burning range and a bench that runs alongside the size of the brick wall.
On the house’s reverse finish, a ‘comfortable’ sits off the central video games rooms and equally opens as much as a sheltered courtyard fitted with a wood-burning fire.
Within the second wing, a light-filled major bed room is wrapped by sliding doorways main out to a personal patio.
An ensuite rest room in the principle bed room options an oval bathtub fronted by a window framing views of the panorama.
Hedges and bushes planted across the plot allowed the studio to channel views of the panorama, whereas growing the privateness for the residents.
Different just lately accomplished initiatives that use charred timber embrace a “hut-like” house clad with blackened wooden in Japan.
The pictures is courtesy of Brotherton Lock.
Challenge credit:
Architect: Richard Parr Associates
Consumer: Personal shopper
Structural engineer: BTA Structural
Design contractor: Barr Construct
M&E guide: Pool Structure
QS: PT Tasks
Panorama contractor: Nicholsons