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Outhouse, Brockweir

This is a house that grabs you right from the start

Credit: Charles Hosea

Loyn & Co Architects for private client

Contract value: Undisclosed

GIA: 490m2

RIBA South West Building of the Year, sponsored by Marley Eternit

Outhouse is on a fabulous sloping plot in the Forest of Dean, with long views to the Wye Valley and Severn Estuary. The design exploits the potential with a house that beds into the site, finely balancing respect to context with confident architectural expression. Its simplicity is founded on rigour and restraint. The key architectural device is a plan organisation separating studio and working spaces on the uphill side and glass fronted living spaces downhill.

  • Credit: Charles Hosea
  • Credit: Charles Hosea
  • Credit: Charles Hosea
  • Credit: Charles Hosea
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The design eloquently and effortlessly tackles many familiar issues – the blurred relationship between interior and exterior space, the penetration of light into a deep single aspect plan, the control of sustainability – without flaunting it. The entrance is a modernist set-piece with a covered approach flanked by a black pigmented concrete pavilion and a simple solid open stair running through a rectangular puncture in the roof plane. This is a house that grabs you, right from the start.

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