Private House / Strom Architects

Dec 2011

By Alison Furuto — Filed under: Houses , Strom Architects, Suffolk, United Kingdom

▼

Add this to My Bookmarks:

share by email

share by email

Strom Architects shared with us their design for a private house located in Suffolk, UK, which has been rendered with great quality by by Peter Guthrie. The client was aiming for country house – ‘a dream in a wood’, a peaceful place to relax, regenerate, and think of new ideas. So the architects created with a linear design that has picked up on the building form – the ‘long cottage’ found along Iken Common, and one can see the design as an evolution of the longitudinal cottage. More images and architects’ description after the break.

The site is located in Suffolk two miles inland from Aldeburgh, and lies within the Suffolk Coast and Heaths Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. The site itself forms part of an overall land ownership of 2.5ha surrounded by agricultural land.

The current site has foundations, ruins and some low walls from a house that burned down eight years ago. There is also an existing outdoor pool. Immediately to the west of the pool and ruins, there is a small area of open grass that runs up to the edge of a beautiful copse of mature oak trees. The site is located on the edge of flood zone 2 and 3, and requires a raised floor level 1.5m above the old cottage. The existing site with the pool, its ruins and low walls has a very strong presence, and we wanted to keep this as an important part of the site.

The building sits above the ruins and the edge of the pool, as to respect the current site, but also to deal with the floor level that is required, due to the potential flood risk. The building is also set like this so that it can be read on its own, and thus touch the existing site lightly. The building is orientated towards the west-south-west, and sits on an angle above the existing ruins facing the best views as well as creating a clear juxtaposition of geometry to the ruins.

A two-storey element punctures through the roof, and contain a master bedroom suite at the first floor. This is positioned towards the existing coach house, thus minimizing the impact of the building on the more open site to the south. This two storey element is recessed from both the west and east facades as to reduce the scale and the appearance of the building.

The building is entered via a bridge that spans the ruins. This sets up the whole philosophy of the house, even before you actually enter, as well as successfully dealing with safe egress form the house to higher land in case of a flood.

Architect: Strom Architects
Location: Suffolk, UK
CGI Visualization: Peter Guthrie Visualisation
Structural Engineer: Barton Engineers
Client: Private
Program: Currently in Planning, Construction May 2012 – March 2013
Materials: Corten cladding, dark-grey stained timber boarding

: © Peter Guthrie

: © Peter Guthrie

: © Peter Guthrie

: © Peter Guthrie

: © Peter Guthrie

: © Peter Guthrie

: © Peter Guthrie

: © Peter Guthrie

: © Peter Guthrie

: © Peter Guthrie

: © Peter Guthrie

: site plan

: first floor plan and east elevation

: ground floor plan and west elevation

Cite:
Furuto , Alison . "Private House / Strom Architects" 03 Dec 2011. ArchDaily. Accessed 25 May 2012. <http://www.archdaily.com/188418>

Comments (7)
Tweets (13)
Links to this entry (1)

amonle says:

guthrie awesomeness again

# December 3, 2011 at 22:31

dr says:

very nice project but the pool is quite strange, old one??

# December 4, 2011 at 08:35

Magnus Strom says:

Indeed, pool is existing. The new house floats over ruins of a house that burned down eight years ago.

# December 5, 2011 at 04:45

Simon Moir says:

Peter Guthrie is presenting @3dslondon this wednesday – all welcome @hayesdavidson

# December 4, 2011 at 20:08

Juan says:

Beautiful plan. Clean… Very clean. I love it.

# December 5, 2011 at 12:26

Planning Approval was gained today on the 4th of January 2012!

# January 4, 2012 at 06:21

Stromtarif vergleichen says:

I do accept as true with all of the ideas you’ve offered to your post. They’re very convincing and can certainly work. Nonetheless, the posts are very brief for newbies. Could you please prolong them a little from next time? Thanks for the post.

# January 18, 2012 at 19:39

6:11 PM Dec 4th

relatively related

Via @ArchDaily – Private House / Strom Architects http://t.co/fqxXmeYX #architecture

8:09 PM Dec 4th

Karsten Sinning

RT @ArchDaily: Private House / Strom Architects http://t.co/POzTIoQt #architecture

12:40 AM Dec 5th

Matthew Valero ASAI

Always nice to see my work on Archdaily. Private House by Strom Architects: http://t.co/dV4WcZuH via @archdaily @stromarchitects

9:26 AM Dec 5th

Magnus Strom