K510 - Sleek steel Cambridge House

Cambridgeshire SG8

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Description:

Mill Hide is an exceptional, beautiful and elegant modern house set within a natural and largely undisturbed landscape, where the quality and excitement of carefully considered minimalism is paramount over the search for complexity. The concept is essentially for a single sculptural form incorporating all the amenities for a country dwelling rather than the more common style expressed in a range of separated building forms.

Set within a 4 acre site the house is at one with the natural surroundings, which extend and amplify the habitat for the adjoining Nature Reserve.

The building design pays particular homage to the Villa Rotunda by Andrea Palladio and the large landscape sculptures by Richard Serra.

The orientation of the building enclosure achieves an optimum layout with the diagonals of the plan aligned with the Cardinal points of the compass allowing sunlight to fall on all four elevations through the diurnal rhythm.

The floor plan and the arrangement of the internal spaces has been developed in order to maximise the opportunity for lifetime homes and long term flexibility for successive generations with limited internal structures and fixed elements.

The sculptural form is expressed externally through the design of the Corten steel rainscreen cladding where the steel is folded around corners and openings with concealed support systems and, minimal joints between the 340 panels where the panels will fuse together through the oxidisation process.

The dwelling has been designed with a sharp focus on energy conservation, long life, sustainability and end of life recycling. br>
PARKING There is parking within the piazza/courtyard for 8-10 cars on a paved surface There is grassland parking for around 30 cars subject to weather conditions.