Strom architects

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The clients wanted a house for their retirement, but with a keen interest in design and a love of abstract and modern art, it needed to eschew the usual trappings of staid, retirement home design. The site is heavily wooded and sloping, enjoying a beautiful southerly aspect with a view over the Durlston Country Park. At the same time, the design reduces the visual impact from across the valley when looking back towards the house, and helped the scheme from a planning point of view. The sloping site - with protected mature trees - very much dictated the positioning of the dwelling. Access is via the front of the property to the South, so we made use of a retaining wall faced in local Purbeck stone, to define different levels and visually mask the vehicular route, maintaining a clear view from the living spaces across the valley.

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A simple interior palette of Purbeck stone flooring, a concrete hearth and engineered timber flooring, provide echoes of the strom architects materials - waterproof concrete slabs and untreated larch cladding.

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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 site itself forms part of an overall land ownership of 2. 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. 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.

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Text description provided by the architects. The design for the house, which is used by the family mainly as holiday home, was constrained by planning issues that to some extent dictated the built footprint and its position on the site. Very tight size restrictions forced the design to push windows to the outside of the envelope, not allowing any overhangs which would be included in an area calculation, therefore reducing the actual built area. However, within the allowable area there was provision for the inclusion of a conservatory, and one challenge was how to successfully integrate this with architecture devoid of the normal connotations of a lean-to structure. The very simple building is also driven by economics of construction. The superstructure consists of a timber frame that was erected onsite. Spans as well as the width of the house are decided by the performance restrictions of standard timber truss components. The house sits on a platform that creates a terrace to the south and the east. This platform connects with a masonry chimneybreast that provides an internal fireplace and a concrete hearth with integrated seating. The platform, being raised slightly off the ground, allows a level connection between inside and outside terraces as well as raises the house off the ground, which in the winter months can be quite wet.

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Architect In Charge: Magnus Strom. Commented: what kind of door was used? A simple interior palette of Purbeck stone flooring, a concrete hearth and engineered timber flooring, provide echoes of the external materials - waterproof concrete slabs and untreated larch cladding. To accomplish this, we listen carefully to your ideas, help you articulate your goals, and care deeply about your investment. The initial concept and design drivers are instantly recognisable in the building, and we worked to retain this clarity of intent without adding anything unnecessary to the building. Louis Park. The door is from The Combination Door Company. Eye-Land at White Oaks Savanna. Log out. In alliance with Architonic. From one simple dashboard, you can manage all the Architect or Building Designer quotes you got. We think carefully about how we build our buildings and work closely with our engineers to ensure an architecture founded in such basic things such as structure, details, materials and order.

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Phone Number Internally, a large open-plan kitchen-dining-living area occupies the centre of the plan, with a covered terrace spanning its length and giving a sheltered outdoor area overlooking the Southern views. Louis Park, MN. Materials Wood Concrete. Send Message. Louis Park. Houzz TV. The house cantilevers over the retaining wall to deal with the level changes and views, and creates a sheltered undercroft parking area. Go to my stream. Houzz Pro: One simple solution for contractors and design pros. Published on January 30, Saint Paul, MN.