Jonathan Bell has written for Wallpaper* magazine since 1999, covering everything from architecture and transport design to books, tech and graphic design. He is now the magazine’s Transport and Technology Editor. Jonathan has written and edited 15 books, including Concept Car Design, 21st Century House, and The New Modern House.
Building a new private home, like Foxglove House, in the English countryside is not without its pitfalls. While property developers can get away with carpeting greenfield sites with drab identikit ‘executive’ housing, individual houses are subjected to extreme levels of scrutiny from planners, neighbours and conservation bodies.Perhaps this is no bad thing, because when it all comes together, the result is spectacular.
Foxglove House follows a similar playbook. The four-bedroom house replaces an existing stable block. However, in order to effectively quadruple the built area to 285 sq m, the practice, which has offices in Hertfordshire and London, worked hard to minimise its impact on the views across this designated Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.Foxglove House is a single-storey structure arranged around a courtyard, a typology that the firm notes is not particularly common to the UK.
A project such as this requires the coordination of many different specialists, from landscape consultants to environmental engineers and local suppliers and craftspeople. Preserving views and open spaces while enhancing the natural realm is obviously worth the effort. One can only hope these careful approaches will filter down to the mass market. He is also the host of Wallpaper’s first podcast.
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