Recycled TV screens cowl the partitions of the seven-bedroom Hundred Acre Wooden home, which structure studio Denizen Works has created on a web site overlooking Loch Awe in Scotland.
Named Hundred Acre Wooden, the castle-like dwelling was designed for a pair with six youngsters on former Forestry Fee land with its personal non-public lochan – a small lake.
Denizen Works has lowered the home right into a hole within the panorama, making it seem as if it emerges out from the bottom on the north and south elevations.
In response to the studio, this goals to present the house a protecting high quality, with the assistance of its monumental look that references the work of Spanish sculptor Eduardo Chillida.
“The temporary was for a household residence for our purchasers and their six youngsters – in addition to an rising variety of grandchildren – that will replicate their personalities and supply an enduring legacy for the household,” mission architect Andrew Ingham informed Dezeen.
“Conceptually, it was conceived as a sculpted strong, referencing the work of Eduardo Chillida, to intensify the sense of a protecting shell that seems as a strong object within the panorama.”
Whereas referencing the work of Chillida, the type of Hundred Acre Wooden has additionally been developed in response to the house’s environmental context.
Its structure goals to make sure it has the least visible influence on the close by street, it makes essentially the most of its vantage level above Loch Awe and its rooms align with the motion of the solar.
“The plan is slender on the west elevation, the place it was thought of extra delicate because of views from the street beneath,” mentioned Ingham.
“The shape responds to the environmental context, key views and the positioning’s topography.”
One of the uncommon options of Hundred Acre Wooden is its facade, which is roofed in recycled and crushed TV screens for a low-maintenance, pebbledash-like end.
This was developed by Denizen Works as a “tackle a conventional Scottish harling” – a tough wall end that’s constituted of lime and mixture.
“We sourced an ornamental glass chipping created from recycled TV screens collected in Scotland which are available a beautiful vary of blue-greys which we felt was acceptable for the moody Scottish skies,” Ingham defined.
“Our shopper can be not eager on TVs, so there was a component of playfulness of their use.”
As the fabric had not been used on a constructing earlier than, the studio needed to develop prototypes with the development supplies firm Sika to check its efficiency.
“Giant pattern panels have been produced for shopper sign-off and to assist persuade the planners that the system would achieve success,” added Ingham.
Inside, the point of interest of Hundred Acre Wooden is a central, double-height corridor lit by an oculus within the ceiling.
This was designed to accommodate a five-metre-tall Christmas tree – one of many shopper’s important requests for Denizen Works.
Across the corridor are the principle dwelling areas and the seven bedrooms, all organized to maximise views of the loch and solar all through the day.
Nearly all of the inside has a intentionally pared-back end to retain give attention to the shopper’s furnishings assortment, however the corridor is designed to be extra dramatic.
“We needed to make use of the finishes to create a way of drama,” mentioned Ingham, referencing the studio’s design for the corridor.
“It incorporates a recycled paper ceiling, clay partitions with gold mica flecks and a screeded ground with uncovered mirror mixture,” he continued. “A big, gold-lead-lined oculus is located over the Christmas tree pit and casts a heat glow into the house.”
The thick partitions of the house are seen within the deep window reveals of every room, bringing the sense of safety granted by its sculptural exterior to the inside.
Ending particulars of the home embrace a floor supply warmth pump that gives heating and sizzling water, whereas a personal borehole gives recent water to the entire home.
As a part of the panorama design, reed beds have been launched to deal with wastewater and rainwater, which is distributed to the lochan.
Based in 2011 by Murray Kerr, Denizen Works is an structure studio with workplaces in London and Glasgow.
Different lately accomplished tasks by the studio embrace the Floating Genesis church, which is topped by a pop-up roof, and a home on the Scottish island of Tiree with a gable-shaped glass wall.
The pictures is by Gilbert McCarragher.
Undertaking credit:
Architect: Denizen Works
Undertaking crew: Charlotte Airey, Matthew Barnett, Andrew Ingham, Murray Kerr, Dimitri Savitchev
Shopper: Personal
