AJ Buildings Library - Watson House

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http://www.johnpardeyarchitects.com/modern-architecture/one-off-houses-architecture/watson-house/The house replaces a large suburban style two-storey house in a rural site within the New Forest. The design responds to both the client’s desire to live in close contact with nature together with the idea of making the house invisible from the public realm to deal with restrictive local planning policy directives on ‘traditional form and detail’.This has resulted in a long, low pavilion that ‘touches the earth lightly’. Within north-south orientated the box-like form, the house provides three bedrooms that open up to the east and morning light, and a large open-plan living-dining-kitchen area, together with a master bedroom suite and study, that opens up to the west with views into a pine copse.The low-impact design on the site is extended into the use of ground source heat pump, rainwater recycling and high levels of insulation that also make the house low-impact environmentally. The house is timber-framed, sweet chestnut-clad and has a sedum roof – a large brick chimney and hearth built in reclaimed bricks from the demolished house anchors this delicate pavilion to the site.

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Watson Houseby John Pardey ArchitectsNew Forest (2010)

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Single storey linear timber structured holiday home in a rural site within the New Forest National Park

DataBegun Aug 2009

Completed Sep 2010

Floor area 206m2

Sector House

Total cost £640,000

Address New Forest, United Kingdom

Professional teamArchitect John Pardey Architects

Project architect Henry Goss

Client Charles + Fiona Watson

Structural engineer  Ramboll UK

Services engineer Energist UK

Quantity surveyor APS Consultants

Main contractor NFTS

Photographs

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Photo credits: James Morris, John Pardey Architects

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Drawings

Location plan

Site plan

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Ground and basement floor plans

Section A-A

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North and south elevations

East and west elevations

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