Orchard House is a timber framed extension alongside the renovation of an existing farmhouse within an AONB, providing a new textile studio, kitchen and workshop.
The brief for this project was to create a new centre for a family home whose scale could adapt for a couple or the entire family. The generous central living area and kitchen is divided from the work spaces by utility spaces, creating distinct zones of focus and relaxation throughout.
All photos by Rory Gaylor unless listed otherwise.
Set within a new landscape designed by Hortus Collective, the building is intended to be entirely surrounded by planting except for the doorways.
The house was built using a range of sustainable materials such as hemp blocks and wood fibre insulation with the aim of using materials that didn’t require specialist application. This was to reduce the perception of natural building materials costing more.
The roof, designed by Structure Workshop, doesn’t contain any steels, instead using a diapraghm of plywood to span a seven metre wide series of rooms.