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Self Build House – A Paragraph 79 House in Open Countryside

A stunning rural home on the edge of the Lugg Valley. The design seeks to embrace the landscape setting and integrate gardens into the house by using interior external courtyards and weaving the gardens into the stepped levels of the house.
The house is arranged down a steep slope and has three stepped levels. The master bedroom suite is at the lower level with the home office and guest beds in the centre and the kitchen living and dinning spaces to the top tier level.

Project Year: 2019

Country: United Kingdom

View of the self build house from the garden area. Trees, lawn, and edible garden spaces are woven around the design to create a very well connected house to the green surroundings. The curved form of the roof follows the slope of the ground so that the design is integrated into the landscape...

Self Build House – Open Countryside, Paragraph 79 House

A self build house in open countryside set within the Lugg valley. This house issues stepped levels to extend down a slope to allow garden spaces to be integrated into the design.

Self Build House – Open Countryside, Paragraph 79 House

This birds eye view of the house demonstrates the stepped levels and how the design follows the contours of the slope. Each of the three blocks are connected by glazed link spaces. This design has a simple logic to arrange a large house on a sloping site, without the costs of excavating large...

Self Build House – Open Countryside, Paragraph 79 House

The self build house has access to gardens all around the site. This pond space is a wet land garden and is a balancing pond to absorb the run off from the roof to capture rainfall from the site. The water is used for irrigation and support of bio-diversity on the site.

Self Build House – Open Countryside, Paragraph 79 House

As well as stepped levels some of the spaces have internal gardens that are open to the elements. This is so that trees and shrubs can be integrated into the interior of the home and thrive with access to daylight and rainwater. These internal garden oasis can be opened up and be used as inner...

Self Build House – Open Countryside, Paragraph 79 House

Rammed concrete provides the primary structure and the wall finish. All that is needed is for the concrete specialist to understand that they are providing the finishes surface and to ensure quality control is written into the specification. This saves the additional costs of wall lining and...

Self Build House – Open Countryside, Paragraph 79 House

Internal view of the office area that is located within the stepped levels of this self build home. The linked spaces step down the slope and the linked rooms allow use of glass to bring light into the interior of the house. The walls are rammed concrete, and the walls are mostly full height...

Self Build House – Open Countryside, Paragraph 79 House

The master bedroom space has views into the interior garden and external garden spaces. The dressing room is attached to the master bedroom space and the whole area can be used as a separate suite from the main house.

Self Build House – Open Countryside, Paragraph 79 House

Roof level showing the full extent of this self build house in open countryside adjacent to the Lugg valley. The arrival area has space for cars and from here guests can move to the lower levels to the entrance space.

Self Build House – Open Countryside, Paragraph 79 House