London follow Stolon Studio has accomplished The Parks, a housing advanced that has been reworked from a gaggle of uncared for farm buildings in Herefordshire.
Initially forming a part of a dairy farm, the group of present buildings dates again to the Fifteenth and sixteenth centuries and includes timber-framed buildings of various sizes topped with pitched roofs.
Having fallen into disrepair after being left unused, the previous buildings had been reworked by Stolon Studio into eight particular person properties that share communal outside areas together with gardens in addition to a pond and meadow.
Because of the website’s dilapidated state, parts of the buildings needed to be demolished, together with collapsed partitions and defective new additions that had been added to the buildings by earlier homeowners.
“The buildings had been in a really dilapidated situation previous to growth,” studio co-founder Robert Barker advised Dezeen. “A few of this was solely found after intrusive investigation works. There have been components which frankly we had been amazed had been nonetheless standing,” he continued.
The studio reused supplies from the demolitions to assist kind the brand new properties, together with previous bricks and timber parts.
“Virtually all the reclaimed supplies had been sourced instantly from website, the native builder and craftsmen did a tremendous job salvaging and reusing the previous bricks and timbers with lower than a handful of latest oaks required,” Barker defined. “There was an exquisite array of previous bricks from completely different Herefordian brickworks, evident by their markings.”
With pink brick facades, the properties are organized across the former farmyard, which has been reworked right into a courtyard that the studio hopes will act because the central group house for the residents.
“We sought to make Parks a sociable rural growth that might engender a way of group and belonging for residents and supply company over the land,” stated Barker.
“Nice thought was given to the design and structure to create the quiet alternative for social interplay between residents, balanced by the supply of privateness and defensible house.”
Forming a C-shape across the edges of the courtyard, every of the eight new properties on the location is linked to a personal backyard and features a share in a communally owned, on-site meadow in addition to entry to shared gear.
“The sphere on the again has change into a chance for residents to take possession of a two-acre shared land asset,” stated Barker. “We have now just lately secured planning for 2 new timber buildings, which is able to sit on the sting of this area offering a terrace of outhouses for residents to make use of as sheds, workshops or summer season homes instantly onto the sphere.”
“A number of the residents are planning to create a kitchen backyard space alongside this and we hope so as to add a small orchard and mosaic habitat past,” he continued.
The properties, which have been named after their unique agricultural makes use of, vary from three- to five-bed items with differing layouts designed to accommodate a variety of age teams.
To match the red-brick exterior partitions, every house is topped with a pink metallic roof and options pink timber detailing.
“Supplies are sympathetic to the traditions of the Herefordshire countryside with a mix of pink brick, tile and terracotta reflecting the reddish pink gravel of the river valley and the wealthy pink clay soil of the native space, famend for its meals produce,” stated Barker.
Inside, the properties function a impartial color scheme and have been created to pair trendy design with the location’s unique agricultural options. Historic options have been celebrated by the studio, together with previous fireplaces and unique brick and stone partitions, which had been left uncovered the place insulation wasn’t required.
Repairs to the unique buildings had been additionally made the place crucial, with beams and partitions straightened and new metal plates and ties added to brace the previous elm and oak beams.
Every home has a singular design, with one house fronted by a shiny kitchen with pink cupboards that mimic the outside and one other having a kitchen with a extra muted, inexperienced color palette and uncovered previous timber framing.
One other unit, which makes use of a loft in one of many previous barn buildings, is characterised by its uncovered timber framing and skylights.
Different renovated barn buildings featured on Dezeen embody a sequence of derelict agricultural buildings which have been transformed into accessible vacation properties and a rural stone barn in Scotland that has been reworked right into a restaurant with uncovered timber beams.
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