A “classical” two-storey colonnade characterises this household residence within the South Downs Nationwide Park, accomplished by London studio Sandy Rendel Architects.

Named Bury Gate Farm, the five-bedroom home replaces a Nineteen Fifties bungalow on a sloped website on the outskirts of Pulborough, which overlooks fields and woodland.

Based on Sandy Rendel Architects, it’s designed as a contemporary interpretation of a “parkland villa”, supposed to enhance each the agricultural website and native vernacular.

This led to its colonnaded southern elevation, which attracts on classical structure however is crafted from concrete and brick, providing a extra up to date look.

“The South Downs Nationwide Park requires a landscape-led method that respects native character,” Sandy Rendel Architects founder Sandy Rendel instructed Dezeen.

“The problem was the best way to craft delicate up to date design that responds to and enhances this protected panorama with out resorting to historic mimicry,” he continued.

Bury Gate Farm has a stepped plan, with residing areas positioned to the south and organised linearly alongside the colonnade.

“The colonnade affords the constructing presence and scale within the wider panorama and a classical order that’s harking back to a parkland villa,” mentioned Rendel.

“On a extra pragmatic degree, it additionally supplies passive photo voltaic shading to the big areas of glazing on the south facade and sheltered exterior pockets from which to benefit from the panorama,” he added.

Externally, the house is outlined by a palette of brick and rammed and precast concrete. Their muted tones had been chosen to enhance the oak timber within the woodland to the north, in addition to stone structure within the space.

“The predominant historic native sandstone and ironstone are a key characteristic of the native constructed atmosphere however sadly are not quarried in a top quality appropriate for constructing stone,” Rendel defined.

“As a substitute their tones and textures had been mirrored within the new home with a easy palette of supplies consisting of waterstruck brickwork mixed with rammed and precast concrete,” he continued.

Inside Bury Gate Farm, the partitions are completed in clay plaster and the flooring with timber, offering a heat and pure look to all areas.

The house is full with a big rooftop array of photo voltaic panels, an air supply warmth pump and an MVHR system to reinforce its power efficiency.

Sandy Rendel Architects is a London studio based by Rendel in 2010. Earlier initiatives by the studio embody a barrel-vaulted barn conversion in West Sussex and a slender home slotted right into a disused alley in Peckham.

The pictures is by Ståle Eriksen.

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