Deepstone Contemporary Landscape House by Simon Winstanley Architects
Simon Winstanley Architects design this house on a steeply sloping spectacular overlooking site in Solway Firth, south west Scotland.
The concept of this house is contemporary, energy efficient home which fully embraces the view and relates to the surrounding context and landscape. The architect design this construction as a stone plinth which exposed quarry face and houses the bedrooms with a garage & entrance under at the level of the quarry base. The main living accommodation is expressed as a lightweight glazed ‘pavilion’ placed on the solid plinth. It is set back to form an external terrace facing the sea and to reduce the apparent mass of the house.
The glazed pavilion is constructed with a steel frame and highly insulated timber infill panels clad in cedar and triple glazed windows. The roof, although thick internally to provide very high levels of insulation, is cantilevered on all sides with projecting expressed douglas fir rafters to give a thin, elegant leading edge.
The house get the principle of energy efficient with insulating the external walls, floor and roof. A borehole is used as the ground source for the underfloor heating and wood burning stove as back up. This house also equipped with Photovoltaic Panels for renewable electricity.
May 20th, 2010 at 4:59 pm
we always redo our landscape every 2 or 3 months to adapt to the changing weather.*’~
July 9th, 2010 at 5:57 am
Landscaping is very important in both the business offices and at home. it makes your yard impressive.;;`
September 10th, 2010 at 5:15 am
it is a bit expensive to have a landscaping these days but it is always necessary to beautify your home~~`
October 24th, 2010 at 8:13 am
my father is very good in landscaping and he specializes on carpet layout:::
April 22nd, 2011 at 12:29 am
Cool blog. I’ll check back here often.