'Kissing gables' draws inspiration from a medieval house in the village with touching tiled gables at right angles. The two building wings are oriented around existing trees and ornamental bushes, at their meeting point creating a natural entrance and verdant front garden featuring new Silver and Downy birches.
The interior consists of rooms overlapping at corners, offering both privacy and flow from one to the next. A double height dining and family room gives view of the large, steeply sloping roof and features low-level glazing to a garden terrace. To the rear, the proposal forms an L-shaped enclosure of large cat slide roofs, with recessed entrances and subtle arches referencing Arts and Crafts designs such as CFA Voysey's The Homestead.
Formal model testing, 1:200, wax paper
Outline layout drawings, layout paper
Front model view, 1:100, wax card
Front view with birches, digital image
Outline layout drawings, layout paper
Formal model testing, 1:200, wax paper
Entrance hall view 1, digital image
Form outline sketches, paper
Development gable model, 1:50, wax paper
Rear garden view, digital image
Rear façade articulation, layout paper
Rear model view, 1:100, wax card
Entrance hall view 2, digital image
Family hall view, digital image
Gable sketch, paper