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January 19, 2012
NEW case study Shingle House holiday home
Shingle House is one of six specially commissioned dwellings for ‘Living Architecture', a social enterprise launched by writer Alain de Botton, which offers holiday homes designed by eminent architects, for rent, in some of the UK's most fascinating landscapes. The timber elements include the structure, cladding, roofing, internal wall lining and floor finish, using Western red cedar, oak and purpleheart.
Designed by Glasgow-based Nord Architecture, Shingle House is set on Dungeness beach, the largest shingle beach in Europe. The shingle, said to be three miles deep, has created a unique ecology of grasses and plants and is of international conservation importance. The house is built on the site of a former cluster of buildings - a smokehouse, cold room, net loft, house and garage. The original smokehouse has been retained and acts as a reference to the use of local vernacular materials.
The way these individual buildings related to the landscape is reflected in the shape of the house, which is contained within three linked pitched-roof hut-like forms. To achieve energy efficiency and savings above current standard requirements, the construction comprises an I-joist timber frame on a 150m2 concrete ‘marsh' slab plus a concrete spine/chimney. The timber frame consists of 160mm timber I-joists with phenolic foam infill between, lined both sides with 9mm OSB. Internally the walls are clad with 75 x 20mm tongued and grooved textured redwood boards on 50 x 50mm battens which create a space for services. The pitched roofs, like the walls, are framed with insulated timber I-beams, lined with OSB board and covered with western red cedar shingles, 400mm long and at random widths.
The walls and roofs of the three pitched roof structures and their links are clad with western red cedar vertical boards and shingles, painted black to share a common aesthetic with other structures at Dungeness, such as Simon Condor's black rubber house*, also a TRADA Case Study.
To view Shingle House in full click here.
*To view the Simon Condor house click here.
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