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Crowbrook

Knox Bhavan Architects, Ware, Hertfordshire, 2011

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Dennis Gilbert (website) Download Original

Timberframed single story house for a client with rheumatoid arthritis

The house is sited on the same footprint of a previous 1970s bungalow preserving the garden, views and aspect of the original building.

To optimise the use of space, corridors are banished with sleeping space made flexible, fixed glazing with solid shutters installed, and bay windows with flush ceilings project out into the landscape. Long views and glazed open corners give the house a strong connection with the garden.

The house is constructed as a breathing timber frame, fully filled with cellulose fibre insulation and clad in the local vernacular black boarding set on a brick plinth. It also has LED lighting, low-energy water devices, photovoltaics and solar thermal panels feeding underfloor heating, water butts and a planted green roof.