A larch-clad extension defines Pen y Widespread, a Seventeenth-century longhouse overhauled by Nidus Architects and Rural Workplace that sits on a hillside in rural Wales.
The dwelling, which is positioned on a hill overlooking the market city of Hay-on-Wye, accommodates a brand new residing area, main bedroom, and entrance foyer in its extension.
It was created by Nidus Architects and Rural Workplace for a household who needed a beneficiant house that would meet the present and future wants of household life.
The size of the extension was designed to “praise” and improve the connection between the unique cottage and the encircling panorama.
The design takes its cues from the agricultural website, referencing vernacular pitched roof constructions typical of the Welsh panorama.
“Intersecting volumes allude to the agricultural farmstead custom of ad-hoc improvement,” Nidus Architects advised Dezeen. “The pitched roof is a time-tested answer for coping with the tough Welsh local weather.”
“The constructing steps with the positioning’s pure topography, hunkering into the panorama to supply shelter in opposition to prevailing winds,” the studio continued.
The architects designed the extension to type an L form with the prevailing longhouse. The quantity of the brand new addition mirrors the roof pitch of the cottage.
The strategy to supplies additionally helps create a dialogue between previous and new. A palette of pure, uncooked finishes impressed by Welsh traditions and practices support in marrying the extension with the prevailing longhouse.
The extension is clad in untreated larch that was grown, minimize and machined inside ten miles of the positioning.
The larch cladding has a random width sample, decreasing pointless waste. Offcuts had been used to make the entrance door.
Inside, the flooring of the brand new extension are buffed concrete, offering a contemporary tackle conventional flagstones utilized in rural Welsh properties.
A spotlight of the inside is a timber-framed nook window that includes a studying nook, framing views of the hills of the Wye Valley.
Pen Y Widespread is a venture by each Nidus Architects and Rural Workplace. Rural Workplace had been designers for work by way of RIBA Phases 1-3, and Nidus Architects undertook work by way of RIBA Phases 3-7.
Different properties in rural contexts within the UK not too long ago featured on Dezeen embody a brick and timber house organized round a wildflower backyard within the New Forest by John Pardey Architects and a demountable wood home on a farmstead in Hertfordshire by Studio Bark.
The pictures is by Finn Beales.
