Contemporary Green Energy-saving View Road House by SHH

Contemporary Green energy-saving View Road House by SHH

SHH has completed design of a stylish contemporary View Road house in North London. Concept for the house was to build an eco-friendly and energy-saving house. The brief for the scheme was to create the ideal family home for a couple (with two young children), who had always wanted to have a home built from scratch to answer their precise needs. The interior was to be open and light with clean lines and lots of storage, so that the house could be clutter-free. Open spaces were to enhance the flow of family life, integrating all activities and family members together. Large window and door openings along with a substantial light well at lower-ground level would bring as much daylight inside the house as possible.

Eco-friendly home architectural View Road House by SHH

The external section of this house blended with surrounding space. It also has sloping roof. The external skin of the steel-framed house is built out of lightweight concrete blocks with high-performance insulation, clad with renewable custom-cut cedar wood. The window frames are stained but will also age naturally as the iroko matures. All the double glazing on the scheme uses high quality argon-filled units to prevent heat loss. The whole sloping roof is finished in powder-coated aluminium to prevent rust, with two inset solar panels on the rear elevation to soak in maximum sunlight.

Open living, dining, kitchen in L-shape View Road House by SHH

The house features three storey. The basement floor incorporates a plant room, wine room, utility room, an ensuite staff flat with bed and shower room and under-stair storage. The ground floor is mostly completely open with living, dining and kitchen areas in one seamless L-shaped area, with a small cloakroom, study and children’s playroom taking up the remainder of the floorplate, leading off a double-height entrance space.

Ensuit bathroom with hydro massage tub View Road House by SHH

From the internal ground floor, an engineered oak timber open-tread steel staircase, with a frameless glass balustrade with sleek steel stringers, leads up to the first floor, tying in with the oak used for the flooring. On this level are two children’s bedrooms and a family bathroom, as well as to the master bedroom and ensuite bathroom (complete with a hydro massage tub), with french doors in the same treatment as on the ground floor plus a glass balustrade allowing views down onto the rear garden – all set beneath the curved, powder-coated, standing seam roof.