In the garden with the roof open, from the fire room at the west end, looking east down its length. In the foreground a low fire burns in a stone hearth. A long stone-edged rill runs away down the middle of pale stone flags, with an old olive on the left, a red Japanese maple on the right and ferns and grasses in beds. On the left, a long oak table with chairs sits outside tall oak-framed glazing into a pale kitchen with a pendant light; on the right, glazing into a darker room with a sofa and lamps. A slim oak bridge crosses at first floor level. At the far end, the inside of the gritstone east gable with a tall narrow window over an oak door, under blue sky. Off brief: both wings carry straight timber eaves and soffits, where the drawings have the curved shell lined in larch with glulam ribs sweeping over the garden. The bridge reads as a solid timber beam with no glass balustrade, and the garden store at the east end has become a door under the window.

Ground floor

496 m² round the 205 m² garden: the practical wing on the north, the fun wing on the south, a fire room at the west end and a garden store at the east.

The card

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Ground floor

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The notes

rendered

The ground floor is the garden level, at ±0.0. It is 496 m² inside, not counting the 205 m² garden under glass in the middle.

arrival

The front door is a single oak door in a closed larch wall. You see the garden first, then the lounge window beyond it.

the practical wing

Along the north side: office 1, living, the entry hall with its stair, lift and WC, the kitchen, the back kitchen and the boot room. The kitchen island faces the dining table, which sits in the garden next to the kitchen glazing. The boot room leads on through the gallery to the car barn.

the fun wing

Along the south side: the double-height lounge, a second stair, lift and WC, office 2 and the gym, with the cardio machines facing the view. The walnut feature stair goes down from the lounge to the lower ground.

Both offices look into the garden, as asked. Neither faces the glare of the south view.

the ends

The fire room sits at the west end under the solid roof, so the flue is simple and the fire works with the glass shut or open. The garden store fills the east end.

Both ends are solid gritstone gables with one window each on the garden axis: 4.5 m wide into the fire room at the west, and a tall narrow 2 m window behind oak fins at the east.

rooms

Space	Wing	Size	Area
Office 1	Practical	5.0 × 7.5 m	32 m²
Living	Practical	8.0 × 7.5 m	60 m²
Entry, stair, lift, WC	Practical	3.5 × 7.5 m	26 m²
Kitchen	Practical	6.0 × 7.5 m	45 m²
Back kitchen	Practical	3.0 × 7.5 m	22 m²
Boot room	Practical	2.5 × 7.5 m	15 m²
Lounge, double height	Fun	11.0 × 7.5 m	82 m²
Stair, lift, WC	Fun	3.5 × 7.5 m	26 m²
Office 2	Fun	5.5 × 7.5 m	41 m²
Gym	Fun	8.0 × 7.5 m	55 m²
Fire room and garden store	Ends	2 × 4.0 × 11.5 m	92 m²
Ground floor, excluding the garden			496 m²
Heated garden under glass	Middle	20 × 10 to 12 m	205 m²

The drawings

1 sheet

Ground floor plan, sheet 01 rev H, garden level, about 1:200 with a 10 m scale bar, north and the drive at the top and the view to the south at the bottom. Along the north side, from left to right: office 1, living, the entry hall with the cloaks, WC, stair and lift behind a single front door, the kitchen with its island facing the garden, the back kitchen and the boot room, with the gallery through to the stone car barn and its two cars at top right. In the middle, the garden under glass, 20 by 10 to 12 m on stone flags, with trees, the rill, the long dining table beside the kitchen glazing and the line of the bridge overhead. At the west end, the fire room under solid roof with its round fire; at the east end, the garden store. Along the south side: the double-height lounge with the walnut stair down, the stair, lift and WC, office 2, and the gym with its cardio machines facing the view. Both gables are solid with one window each on the garden axis. — 01 · Ground floor plan

The plates

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The kitchen on a bright summer morning, from the back of the room. Birch plywood joinery with recessed pulls, a long birch island with a terrazzo top, an undermount sink and a bronze tap, three oak stools, a pale terrazzo floor and a slatted birch ceiling over the island with three pendants. A doorway on the left leads to the back kitchen, and a narrow slot window is set into the back wall. On the right, tall oak-framed glazing slides open onto the garden: an olive, a fig, a rill and a long oak table with chairs, with a bridge crossing at first floor level. Close to the drawings. Off brief: across the garden, the south wing is in pale timber with straight eaves and a glass balustrade along its first floor, where the drawings have walnut on that side and the curved shell over both wings. — 02 · The kitchen on a bright summer morning

The double-height lounge in late afternoon sun. The outer wall rises and curves over to become the ceiling, lined in warm walnut-toned boards with curved timber ribs. Along its foot a long window band in oak frames looks out over a sunlit valley, with a continuous window seat in charcoal cushions. On the left, the inside face of the coursed gritstone gable, a walnut stair going down, and tall glazing into the garden with an olive tree. A long low charcoal sofa, a heavy walnut coffee table on a wool rug, two cognac leather armchairs and a bronze floor lamp. Close to the drawings. Off brief: the ribs sit about four times further apart than the 1.5 m centres drawn. — 03 · The double-height lounge in late afternoon sun

Aerial view from a drone to the south-east on a summer midday, with the roof open. The shell reads as a ring of copper over larch sides on a gritstone base, round an opening into the garden: stone flags, a long narrow rill, an olive, a fig and a red Japanese maple, a long table with chairs on the north side and a wide oak bridge crossing at first floor level. Along the north edge of the opening sits a row of glass panels. A small terrace with two chairs is sunk into the south slope of the copper. The east end is gritstone with a tall narrow window behind oak fins, and the stone car barn with a curved copper roof sits on a gravel court to the right, with a wildflower bank and dry stone wall along the approach. Off brief: the drawings stack three 20 by 3.3 m glass panels over the guest wing, about 10 m deep in all; here the glass is a single row along the north edge. From above the plan reads as a rounded rectangle, where the long sides should pinch in by 1 m at the waist so it reads like a lens. The car barn's roof is a plain barrel rather than a small saddle. — 04 · Aerial view from a drone to the south-east on a summer midday