Summer house, Norwich

We are working with our clients to add family accommodation, as a summer house, to an existing garden site within a conservation area. 

The proposed building will complement and enhance the existing house by placing accommodation in a part of the site that receives the afternoon and evening sun. The building has been designed to have a strong visual connection and direct access to the garden.

The internal space can be used in the daytime as a home office and studio, away from the family house. In the evening the kitchen and garden areas can be used for entertaining in the evening sun. Two cellular rooms will be used as a gym and cinema room.

A high-quality simple form, cleanly detailed, has been developed to minimise the building massing.  A sensitive palette of materials and green roof maintain the view and amenity from neighbouring properties, and help the building blend into the surroundings. 

Principal external walls are proposed as light brick, drawing on local buildings, and help the building to read as a garden wall.  Windows are strategically placed to illuminate and ventilate internal spaces, whilst minimising views to or from the neighbouring properties, all checked in VR.