The stone lobby in the evening, coming in from the tub. Rough gritstone walls, a wet stone floor with puddles, linen robes on oak pegs over a rough oak bench with slippers under it, and a dark heated towel rail on the stone. The oak door stands open onto the tub enclosure, with the steaming tub, a lantern and trees beyond. An enclosed oak stair rises on the right toward a tall slot window, with light along the treads. Off brief: there is a recessed downlight in the ceiling, where the brief rules out ceiling downlights, and the floor is large flags where the ground plan has heated setts.

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The stone core

Where the wall thickens under the cabin into a warm stone box: the arrival door, the lobby, the stair and the plant room.

The card

spaces 02 of 04

The stone core

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The notes

rendered

Where the wall crosses under the cabin, it thickens into a box. That box holds the lobby, the stair and the plant room, about 17 m² of heated space. Its cavity is insulated, so the core is warm inside and stone on both faces.

The stone lobby and drying room is 3.6 × 2.6 m, 9 m². The stair is 1.0 m wide and takes 4 m². The plant and laundry room is 1.8 × 2.4 m, 4 m².

The ground plan draws the core about 4.2 by 5.0 m outside, or about 3.3 by 4.1 m inside, with the plant room, the stair and the lobby all sharing that space. The lobby it draws is smaller than the 3.6 × 2.6 m in the concept table, and the two have not been reconciled.

arrival

You walk in from the north, under the cabin's overhang and out of the rain. Setts run under the whole cabin, about 50 m² of sheltered undercroft. There is a single oak door set into the stone core. It is green oak, not charred larch, because char rubs off on hands and clothes.

the lobby

Bare gritstone walls and a heated gritstone floor. An oak bench, deep pegs for robes and a heated towel rail. Wet coats and boots dry here overnight.

A second oak door opens west, straight from the tub enclosure into the lobby. It is four steps from the tub to a towel.

the stair

An enclosed oak stair, 14 risers, rising west to east inside the line of the wall and lit by a single slot window. You climb out of stone and arrive in timber.

the plant room

The hot water cylinder and the laundry. The wet room is directly above, so its drainage runs straight down through the core. The heat pump is outside, in a recess on the north face of the wall.

The drawings

1 sheet

Ground floor plan, sheet 02, at 1 to 100, north at the top. The stone core sits where the wall crosses under the cabin. Inside it are the plant room with the cylinder and laundry, a north entry door off the covered arrival, a stair of 14 risers rising west to east, and the stone lobby with an oak bench and a door west into the tub enclosure. The enclosure has the 1.8 m tub, the heater niche, the log store and a slot drain. Setts run under the whole cabin, which is drawn dashed at 6.6 by 11.4 m with an oak post at each corner, and the heat pump sits against the wall to the east. — 01 · Ground floor plan

The plates

2 · lift any one out

A rainy afternoon at the arrival side. The charred larch cabin is lifted over the long gritstone wall, with moss on the copings, on two thick weathered oak posts. It has a moss roof with deep eaves. Underneath, a plain oak door with a small wall light is set into the stone, with wet flags, ferns, birch trunks and fallen leaves around it. Off brief: the door is in the face of the long wall rather than in the north face of the stone core, the cabin sits along the wall rather than straddling it, the north face has a long band of glass where the upper plan has one low bedroom window, and the floor is irregular flags rather than setts. — 02 · A rainy afternoon at the arrival side