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Sumit Singhal
Sumit Singhal loves modern architecture. He comes from a family of builders who have built more than 20 projects in the last ten years near Delhi in India. He has recently started writing about the architectural projects that catch his imagination. Garden Buildings in Warmington, England by Ashworth Parkes Architects LtdMarch 6th, 2016 by Sumit Singhal
Article source: Ashworth Parkes Architects Ltd The project is a collection of new ‘agricultural’ style buildings at the threshold between the formal garden of the main house and meadow beyond in a small Northampton shire village.  Image Courtesy © Ashworth Parkes Architects Ltd
 Image Courtesy © Ashworth Parkes Architects Ltd The brief asked for the demolition of an existing garage, a garden store and the remains of an old piggery. In their place our clients asked for a ‘Studio’ building’ with catering facilities and a bathroom, where our clients might ‘go away’ for the weekend, a garden storage building with room for an office at one end, a carport and a greenhouse.  Image Courtesy © Ashworth Parkes Architects Ltd  Image Courtesy © Ashworth Parkes Architects Ltd Taking the original piggery walls as a cue, we created a series of new walls of various heights and orientations in the local coursed limestone from which the main house is constructed and that is so prevalent in Warmington and other Northampton shire villages.  Image Courtesy © Ashworth Parkes Architects Ltd  Image Courtesy © Ashworth Parkes Architects Ltd The new buildings emerge from, sail over or hang off these walls. Using a limited palette of unadorned ‘agricultural’ materials in a variety of different ways, sawn larch timber, (vertical random width cladding, over sized shingles and framing to the carport planted roof) corrugated aluminium and Cor10 steel, we have tried to create a relaxed informality between the buildings as if they have accreted themselves into the site and onto the walls over a period of time as needs required.  Image Courtesy © Ashworth Parkes Architects Ltd  Image Courtesy © Ashworth Parkes Architects Ltd Internally in the studio we have repeated the random width vertical cladding on the outside, though this time it is planed and treated with a lye and a wax finish to maintain its’ colour. It is butt jointed to allow the timber to move and natural cracks and undulations to appear across the boards.  Image Courtesy © Ashworth Parkes Architects Ltd  Image Courtesy © Ashworth Parkes Architects Ltd  Image Courtesy © Ashworth Parkes Architects Ltd  Image Courtesy © Ashworth Parkes Architects Ltd  Image Courtesy © Ashworth Parkes Architects Ltd  Image Courtesy © Ashworth Parkes Architects Ltd  Image Courtesy © Ashworth Parkes Architects Ltd  Image Courtesy © Ashworth Parkes Architects Ltd  Image Courtesy © Ashworth Parkes Architects Ltd  Image Courtesy © Ashworth Parkes Architects Ltd  Image Courtesy © Ashworth Parkes Architects Ltd  Image Courtesy © Ashworth Parkes Architects Ltd  Image Courtesy © Ashworth Parkes Architects Ltd  Image Courtesy © Ashworth Parkes Architects Ltd  Image Courtesy © Ashworth Parkes Architects Ltd  Image Courtesy © Ashworth Parkes Architects Ltd  Image Courtesy © Ashworth Parkes Architects Ltd
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