The design concept draws upon the sites unique character, with built form sensitively located amongst an unspoilt and bucolic landscape. The proposals seek to bed the scheme within the landscape by utilising the sites existing topography, the existing fringe vegetation as well as the introduction of a carefully curated design response to enhanced biodiversity and ecology.

The built form and landscaping strategy go hand
in hand in order to create a scheme that is treads lightly and is of its place. The house itself is conceived as two distinct blocks, arranged in relation to views, passive solar design and the prevailing weather whilst permitting visual and physical connections with the verdant immediate and wider context.

A ground floor of local stone provides human scale as well as enclosure, creating a consistent datum across the site. On top of this solid mass perches a zinc or timber clad element taking reference from the forms and materiality of both traditional and modern barns in the area. A juxtaposition and hierarchy is formed between the ground floor environment and an ancillary family member. The minimal contemporary detailing free of ornament, the tone and agricultural form of the proposed mass is intended to reinforce this concept.