Already
a winner of a RIBA National
Building Award and shortlisted for the RIBA House of the Year, Shawm House, designed by MawsonKerr Architects, was one of four contenders in the running for the Medal.
Located in an exposed Northumberland setting Shawm House is an exemplar in residential design, innovation and construction and the product of five years of collaboration between Dan Kerr of MawsonKerr Architects and the client’s son, Richard Pender.
The house consists of a two storey timber frame new build which links to a small single storey existing stone stable block. These elements, along with the new timber framed outbuilding, are ‘anchored’ to the existing stone wall which acts as a shield to the prevailing South Westerly winds and an axis between the new builds. The house is wrapped in a thick larch ‘blanket’ that seamlessly envelopes the roof and walls, below which is a highly insulated and airtight building.
Shawm House demonstrates that a house with a conservative build cost budget of just £350,000 (less than £1500 per m2
) can
deliver high quality design and architectural rigour.
www.mawsonkerr.co.uk
Also shortlisted was Hackney Backhouse, a brave, imaginative and contemporary two- storey, three-bedroom family home which has a gross internal area of 112m2
neatly tucked
onto an 11m by 8m site in a Hackney Conservation Area, and, like Red House, formerly occupied by a run-down garage and workshop.
Keen to avoid divorcing the house from its context and its neighbourhood, Guttfield Architecture designed a house with a direct visual relationship with the street – the house is part of the street and the street part of the house. A screen of vertical corten louvres between the house and the street is intended as a simple device to moderate this two- way relationship.
Inside, the large areas of glazing make the lightwells feel part of the ground floor layout and help the plan feel more open and spacious. The basement level, which houses three bedrooms and two bathrooms, is arranged around two secluded external courtyards which allow ample daylight into the spaces.
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