Flint House
Toot Hill, Essex
Overview
A practice first under the Paragraph 80 umbrella. A modern interpretation of an Essex farmstead derived from its immediate and surrounding context which we evolved with our thorough understanding of the environmental aspects of the site and the defining characteristics of the local area.
The site is a former paddock which has been owned by the client for over 30 years. They wanted a special place to retire in - highly aesthetic, sustainable house influenced by its rural location.
Flint house has been designed as a 'one off', based on the vernacular of an Essex Barn, with a steep pitched timber roof, linear footprint and contemporary projections. The drama unfolds as you walk through the front door, and you experience the open-vaulted Glulam beams & CLT panelled ceiling with a 6m high ridge beam.
With generous open plan living and dining spaces, low-level internal walls and large triple glazed openings to the entrance level, the full extent of the theatrical roof is on show. Only when next to the home can one see, the cleverly cut away
ground level to reveal the lower ground floor, home to four well-proportioned bedrooms and sunken, private terraces.
The clients decided they did not wish to pursue the project further due to their time of life and length of planning process. We hope one day to have the opprtuntiy to work on another all the way through to being built!
- Net-Zero – no need for external energy utilities
- Architecture and landscape take inspiration from traditional Essex Farmstead
- Paragraph 80 application
- Strong external materials crafted locally, including chalk knapped flint and Shou-Sugi-Ban charred black timber cladding
- Enhances biodiversity with over 300% net gain over existing
- Sustainable timber structure acting as carbon sink and aesthetic
- SUDS via sustainable drainage systems
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