Zinc House in Lancashire, England by Proctor & Shaw Architects

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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.

Zinc House in Lancashire, England by Proctor & Shaw Architects

July 1st, 2019 by Sumit Singhal

Article source: Proctor & Shaw Architects

This 3 bedroom family house is set in 4 acres at the edge of a Lancashire village in the UK. The brief required a house that was laid out over 2 storeys but could accommodate inclusive lifetime homes standards for ground floor living, and whilst open plan in layout could retain the function of accommodating distinct rooms.

In response, a series of interconnecting living spaces link though disappearing corner sliding doors to create an open plan ground floor, that opens on three sides to outdoor garden ‘rooms’ that capture light at different times of the day.A second storey adds a master bedroom suite with framed views of the hills beyond.

Image Courtesy © David Millington Photography Ltd

Architects: Proctor & Shaw Architects
Project: Zinc House
Location: Lancashire, England
Photography: David Millington Photography Ltd
Software used: Vectorworks, SketchUp

Image Courtesy © David Millington Photography Ltd

A masonry plinth of handmade brick provides support for two gabled volumes clad in contrasting standing seam zinc finishes, one elevated and the other grounded, linked by a sedum flat roof structure. The ‘townside’ gables are expressed in monolithic form, whereas the ‘countryside’ gables are punctuated with large projecting box seat windows overlooking a re-instated orchard with farmland beyond. The house achieves an extremely low carbon footprint, with a timber structure and a highly efficient envelope, supported by a PV array and ground source heat pump to provide for heating and electricity needs with almost no net running costs.

The pre-fabricated cross-laminated timber structure arrived on site on one lorry and was erected in three days, meeting the clients requirement to significantly reduce the construction period required to achieve watertightness of the envelope and allow flexibility in the programming of subsequent works.

Image Courtesy © David Millington Photography Ltd

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Tags: England, Lancashire

Categories: House, Residential, SketchUp, Vectorworks

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