HURSTMEAD

New build

On site - due for completion March 2025

Hurstmead is a new low-energy dwelling for members of a multi-generational farming family, providing a long term home for them within reach of the farm.

The site occupies land that has been cut off from the farm by the construction of a new road. Subsequently the field has been commercially non-viable to farm and is naturally associated with the collection of other properties nearby.

The principal concept of the design is to create a walled garden with single storey building, inspired by nearby agricultural barns.

The building is split into two elements; the main brick clad living space sitting behind the ‘garden wall’ with a flat roof planted with a bio-diverse intensive green roof, and the bedroom barn with a pitched roof and timber clad walls.

The two are connected via a small glass link which helps to delineate the two and break down the overall building volume on the site.