Conventional English West Nation farmhouses knowledgeable the uncooked exterior and barn-like timber ceilings of this Cornish residence by London studio Hugh Unusual Architects.
Aptly named the Farmworker's Home, it’s designed by Hugh Unusual Architects for a farm supervisor in a wooded nook of a giant subject reverse a livestock shed.
It has a courtyard structure that emulates conventional farmhouses, with residing areas overlooking a backyard, enveloped by a low wall that matches the home's exterior end of textured lime plaster.
“The design of the home suggests a type of rural improvement that respects and preserves the prevailing character of the panorama, whereas nonetheless making a personality intervention,” studio founder Hugh Unusual informed Dezeen.
“The home nestles in a wooded nook of the sector and, only a mile from the Atlantic coast, the constructing seeks to guard itself from the weather, adopting an introverted courtyard home typology,” he added.
The Home of the Agricultural Employee has an L-shaped plan, organized on a single ground. To the southeast is a residing, eating and kitchen space in a single “barn-like” quantity that descends to create a extra beneficiant ceiling peak.
To the southwest, the main bedroom and two smaller bedrooms are oriented to profit from the western gentle within the night.
These two wings are separated by a central entrance corridor and an adjoining dormer workplace within the north nook of the home, which seems again throughout the farm to the shed reverse.
A darkish tiled ground, white plastered partitions and uncovered timber roof construction unify the interiors, whereas deep bay home windows spotlight the thickness of the home's masonry partitions.
“The protecting wings of the home are fashioned by thick masonry partitions, the depth of which is a results of the particular development system used: monolithic clay blocks used with out cavity or insulation layer,” mentioned Unusual.
“This monolithic base helps a singular, unifying Douglas fir roof that’s readable inside and redolent of the encompassing older barn constructions,” Unusual continued.
Within the central backyard, a paved terrace sits subsequent to a planted mattress and vegetable patch, with two doorways within the outer wall giving entry to the farm.
A corrugated metallic roof harking back to agricultural constructions tops the Farmworker's Home, as does the single-pane quantity of an hooked up storage at its west finish.
Farm buildings additionally served as references for a Suffolk residence by Mole Architects with a barn-like end in brick and black timbers, and a household retreat on Lengthy Island that Lake Flato Architects created with prefabricated parts from wooden.
Picture by Jason Orton.