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BEAUTIFUL HOUSE
Design Competition, 2015
'Design a Beautiful House’, was an International Design Competition that sought beautiful, high quality design proposals for a new home. ‘My home’ is located on a 91 ha site set within London’s metropolitan green belt. It will be home to 7 people with varying requirements.
This anonymous, open international design competition aimed to generate new ideas and proposals for the construction and delivery of a new house and its setting on a former site for a golf course. The design responses were to demonstrate a concept of beauty whilst providing a home that responded to the brief, from concepts to details.
The proposals sought were to be aesthetically pleasing, enhanced through design concepts and material use amongst other considerations. Proposals were also to be considerate to its context. It was imperative that whilst each submission should embody a form of beauty, they should also address its capability of adapting for the changing needs of its users.
Formerly a golf course and golf club house, the site now hosts a residential home that comprises of one residential dwelling with several out buildings, a boat house and jetty that is surrounded by large lakes and agricultural/forestry land. The site and surrounding area is rural in character and within the Metropolitan Green Belt. Access is via a driveway from one main road(see site information download) and a number of footpaths cross the site.
The competition aimed to stimulate and reward innovative thinking about how a home could be designed. The project’s key themes included conceptual approaches to designing a home that defines ‘beauty’, through concepts, design quality and accessibility.
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