Oak Avenue House, Herefordshire

The brief for this project has been set by a family with young children who would like to build a home on family farm land. The brief is defined by the need for a four bedroom home with strong connections to the local landscape and open plan living on the ground floor for a growing family. The chosen location has an existing barn on site that has been explored as the footprint for the initial proposal.

The proposal explores a simple agricultural form and material palette, utilising standing seam metal and timber cladding, that extends into the landscape with a covered colonnade structure. This external structure becomes the interface between the inside living spaces and the wider landscape and not only provides shelter, but offers shading to the large areas of glazing, orientated towards the far reaching views.