Project overview
Berkshire
Designed for a family moving from London to rural Berkshire, this project brings an urbane refinement to the agricultural setting. Taking inspiration from the classic modernist pavilions of Europe and America, the proposal seeks to generate a positive juxtaposition of the precise elegant structure and the farmland that surrounds it.
Raised on a stone plinth, the immediate domestic setting is carefully contained, with the naturalistic landscape able to run right up to it without the traditional separation of lawns and hedges. The horizontality of the house sits comfortably in the low lying landscape around the River Thames, with the raised plinth providing flood protection.
The palette of natural stone and glass set between an expressed structural grid shows a clearly Miesian influence but contains a more complex internal spatial arrangement of double height volumes and mezzanines.
