Concrete columns body Bury Gate Farm by Sandy Rendel Architects

A 'traditional' two-storey colonnade characterizes this household house within the South Downs Nationwide Park, accomplished by London studio Sandy Rendel Architects.

Known as Bury Gate Farm, the five-bedroom home replaces a 1950s bungalow on a sloping plot on the outskirts of Pulborough, which overlooks fields and woodland.

In response to Sandy Rendel Architects, it’s designed as a contemporary interpretation of a 'villa within the park', meant to enhance each the agricultural website and the native vernacular.

This resulted in its colonnaded south elevation, which is predicated on classical structure however is fabricated from concrete and brick, giving it a extra up to date look.

“The South Downs Nationwide Park requires a landscape-based strategy that respects native character,” Sandy Rendel Architects founder Sandy Rendel advised Dezeen.

“The problem was the right way to create a delicate up to date design that may reply to and improve this protected panorama with out resorting to historic mimicry,” he continued.

Bury Gate Farm has a stepped plan, with residing areas positioned to the south and arranged linearly alongside the colonnade.

“The colonnade offers the constructing presence and scale within the wider panorama and a classical order harking back to a villa in a park,” mentioned Rendel.

“On a extra pragmatic degree, it additionally supplies passive photo voltaic shading to the massive areas of glazing on the south facade and sheltered exterior pockets from which to benefit from the surroundings,” he added.

Externally, the home is outlined by a pallet of brick and overwhelmed and prefabricated concrete. Their muted tones had been chosen to enhance the oaks of the northern forest in addition to the stone structure of the realm.

“The native historic predominant sandstone and ironstone are a key characteristic of the native constructed atmosphere, however sadly are not quarried in a top quality appropriate for constructing stone,” defined Rendel.

“As a substitute, their tones and textures had been mirrored within the new home by means of a easy materials palette consisting of brick mixed with poured and precast concrete,” he continued.

Inside Bury Gate Farm, the partitions are completed with clay plaster and the flooring with timber, giving a heat and pure look to all areas.

The home is full with an array of photo voltaic panels on the roof, an air supply warmth pump and an MVHR system to enhance its power efficiency.

Sandy Rendel Architects is a London-based studio based by Rendel in 2010. The studio's earlier initiatives embrace a barrel-vaulted barn conversion in West Sussex and a slender home set in a disused laneway in Peckham.

Images is by Ståle Eriksen.

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