The house from the south-east on a summer evening, from a wildflower meadow below it, with a low sun from the west and rolling green hills and oaks behind. One broad, low curved shell: vertical larch boards weathered honey-silver run up from a coursed gritstone base and over the bend into a standing-seam copper crown, with a band of glass set into the crown over the middle. A long ground floor window band and a shorter upper band, both in deep oak frames, run along the south side above a gritstone plinth, with a lit opening and a small terrace with sofas at its left-hand corner and copper rain chains dropping into stone troughs. The east end is an arch of coursed gritstone with one tall lit window in oak frames. To the right a small stone car barn with a curved copper roof and a band of glass under it is joined to the house by a short glazed link. Off brief: the drawings give the east end one window 2 m wide and 8 m tall behind close-set oak fins; here it is a wider window in plain oak frames with no fins. The car barn's roof is a plain barrel, where the drawings give it the house's saddle in miniature, dipping in the middle and rising to each end, and the link to it is glazed rather than gritstone with narrow oak-framed windows. The glass over the garden reads as a narrow strip, where the drawings have three panels covering a 20 by 10 m opening.

← the floor The Ledge/roof and sections·if / 073

Section north to south

Through the bridge: glulam ribs spanning 25 m at the waist, the glass over the middle 10 m, and the roof at 8.5 m in the middle.

The card

roof and sections 02 of 03

Section north to south

roof and sections 02 of 03idea_073

The notes

rendered

Sheet 04.

Glulam ribs at roughly 1.5 m centres span 25 m at the waist and 27 m at the ends. The glass panels run on rails along the ribs over the middle 10 m.

Open, the glass slides north and stacks over the guest wing, so it never blocks the view side. The garden narrows to 10 m here at the waist.

The middle of the roof is now 8.5 m, rising to 10.5 m at the ends. That is lower and lighter than rev C, which helps with planning.

The trade-off: the first floor ceilings drop near the outer walls. The outer 1.5 m of the guest rooms and the main suite become window seats and storage.

The drawings

1 sheet

Section north to south through the bridge, sheet 04 rev H. The curved shell on glulam ribs at about 1.5 m centres, spanning 25 m at the waist, with the lower ground under the south wing, the ground and first floors of both wings, the bridge across the garden, and the three glass panels on rails over the middle 10 m, shown open and stacked north over the guest wing. The roof is 8.5 m high at the middle. The first floor ceilings drop near the outer walls, where the outer 1.5 m becomes window seats and storage. — 01 · Section north to south through the bridge