Set in the remarkable countryside of the Ria d’Etel, in a protected area, this building includes an oyster farm hangar and temporary dwelling. The project is designed to reflect the changing faces of the surrounding area – a basin at low tide and a sea loch at high tide – a moving object that can be divided, opened up, and closed again at will. Conceived ...
Modified: February 18, 2019... primarily a combination of cleared grass dunes (locally known as the Cups region) and expansive areas of dense Coastal Heath and Ti-tree shrub. The site is a designated wildfire zone and prior to the landscape being significantly cleared by early European farmers the area was inhabited by local aborigines. On our first site visit we discovered the remnants of a hollowed out burnt log. This informed a starting point for an architectural exploration for the interiors and exterior where the form of the hollowed ...
Modified: December 26, 2018The project Sagerberg shows the conversion of a historic residential building of a former alpine farming from the year 1753. The almost dilapidated substance was refined sensitively and two apartments newly developed and supplemented with sanitary facilities and own access. The structural impurities were removed, the house extended towards the west,...
Modified: April 10, 2018This double 2015 RIBA Award winning project is located in a 9.5 hectare farm in Buckinghamshire, UK. In 2013 we were approached to design a new farmhouse following the clients’ decision to have a change of lifestyle and relocate from their London apartment to a neglected farm. The farm comprises of free range livestock,...
Modified: September 26, 2017The former farmhouse is situated in an agricultural area east of the village of Aartrijke, Belgium. The typology of the existing building is used in a contemporary way to enlarge the dwelling. Two new volumes with a pitched roof slide against the existing volume ...
Modified: July 24, 2017Old farm buildings in the mountains of Norway have inspired the low, long and slim shape of the building. The site has anextensive view of the mountain ranges in the west. This white horizon is present in all parts of the interior, down to the bathtub. The ...
Modified: July 18, 2017Programme and spatial integration In the rural area near Utrecht, a large farmhouse has been transformed into an exclusive house. An archetypal farm seems to be ‘pierced’ by a new wooden volume in the middle of the open countryside. With these interventions, the boundaries between inside and outside are shifted in various ...
Modified: June 20, 2017Court Farm is situated in the Langridge Valley, on the outskirts of Bath. It lies within an area of outstanding natural beauty and also the Bath and Bristol green belt. The farm comprises a series of buildings varying in nature, date and quality. At its heart ...
Modified: June 06, 2017... juxtaposition between the old and new. However, for this to work successfully it’s important to have a clear understanding of what gives the existing structure its character – what is the dialogue between the old and new trying to communicate? Chantry Farm Barn is a Grade II listed timber framed barn in Suffolk that had been left redundant and was beginning to fall into disrepair. The owners of the building, Alan and Laura Jarvis and their daughter Holly, wanted a conversion that kept the character ...
Modified: December 12, 2016The project is commissioned by a Belgian customer wishing to settle in France in order to live a happy retirement by the sea. The project is divided into 2 parts: one is to renovate an existing farm building to create two 2-room apartments for rental. The second part proposes the creation of a new wooden house by taking the morphologies of the region farmhouse. The singular form of the plot is used for the composition of the project by offering ...
Modified: December 06, 2016Studio Farris Architects was commissioned to convert the complex of house and stables of an 18th century farm located in Lennik, a small town in an agricultural area close to Brussels, into a single family house. Of the 4 existing volumes, a storage room and pigsty were demolished, while the other pigsty and the adjacent 1960's house were renovated. Starting ...
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