RESIDENTIAL
'Paragraph 80' Detached Passive House, Diggle, Saddleworth
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Work Stages: RIBA 1 - 4
Role: Architect |
Thorns Meadow House, located in the village of Diggle, Saddleworth is a 'Paragraph 80 NPPF' 4 bed private residence sensitively designed as a ‘whole life pavilion’ to Passive House standards. Planning permission has been sought for the proposals which incorporate high levels of architecture that embraces immediate context, respects the wider local vernacular and references the unique geological features of the sites surroundings.
The proposals reflect the forms and materiality of the local vernacular, acknowledging the surrounding traditional Lancashire gritstone farmhouses and weavers’ cottages with their predominately narrow linear footprints (which helped with construction on steep hillsides) and a strong horizontal emphasis on glazing. The proposals also seek to reference the modern agricultural barns which now form part of the current local vernacular, with again a emphasis on strong horizontal linear forms built into the landscape, often with timber cladding set above heavier stone or concrete walls. The strong visual form of the Standedge gritstone escarpment on the landscape 1.8km above the site has become an important reference point in terms of the design of the proposal. The proposal proudly facing outwards towards the valley pays homage to escarpment taking cues from the sharp heavy linear rock extrusion cutting horizontally through the top of the softer undulating Saddleworth moorlands, Thorns Meadow House seeks to replicate this natural phenomenon conceptually within the design. |
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