Article source: Studio Bark

Box House is constructed using Studio Bark’s innovative U-Build construction system. Please see our U-Build website for more information.

The scheme is one of 10 pilot houses, built side by side as the first street in Graven Hill, Bicester: a pioneering development of 1900 Custom and Self Build houses (CSH). The Graven Hill project is of national significance, a ‘vanguard’ project aiming to help the government double the CSH market by 2020.

The clients, Chris and Roxie, wanted to be involved in the construction of their house and were interested in the benefits associated with prefabricated (off-site) housing. However, they did not have the budget to pay for an external contractor, nor the specialist skills to lead the build process themselves. In response to this challenging brief, Studio Bark developed an innovative system of CNC cut timber building blocks, later coined as U-Build, designed to provide a robust and affordable self-build solution for keen self-builders with limited construction experience.

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• Architects: Studio Bark
• Project: Box House
• Location: Bicester, England 
  
• Contractor: Studio Bark Projects
• Cost: £201,000 (ex VAT) Construction
• Status: Complete

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