The curvy one. Brookfield replaces an old house on the same site. Although the site is not on the river-bank, it is at river level so is subject to frequent flooding requiring the floor to be raised well above ground level. The structure was built in glue-laminated timber…
House by The Water sits on a long narrow site on the banks of the Thames near Henley, with the river-front along the short end to the site. The previous house was a modest size and built too low to be safe from flooding but there was strong opposition…
“Marton” is a three-bedroom house built in 2006 on the banks of the Thames at Shiplake, Oxfordshire, just outside Henley-on-Thames and was to be Chris’s first opportunity to build a house for himself. The building industry had been awash with discussion about sustainability for years with widely varying views…
“Arcadia” is on a large site next to the river Thames at Wargrave, near Henley. This design again uses the Tapp-House system to create a family home with extensive decking to make the most of the garden and river. The form of the house is very reminiscent of…
“Windrush” was a 2009 Grand Designs awards finalist, Best Eco Home category. If Marton was the prototype then Windrush was the first production model. Windrush is a five-bedroom house built on the banks of the Thames at Charvil, Berkshire. It takes the same system of glue…
Bird Place was completely re-modelled in 2005. The original house was built from a collection of left-overs from various old buildings but was poorly finished with concrete roof tiles and softwood windows. The brief was to transform the house into something of exceptional quality that respected the stunning river-side…
In this project the challenge was to double the size of a pair of stone farm cottages without losing the original character of the houses. We developed an extension that mirrored the footprint of the old houses but off-set it diagonally and then formed a lightweight link between…
