Concrete Beach House of Deepstone House by Simon Winstanley Architects
December 3rd, 2009 - Posted in Beach House, Concrete HouseSponsored Link
Located in south west Scotland, Simon Winstanley Architects was completed the concrete beach house design of Deepstone House. This house situated on a spectacular site overlooking the Solway Firth. The design met the client’s brief for a contemporary, energy efficient home which fully embraces the view and relates to the surrounding context and landscape.
The house is conceived as a stone plinth which echos the exposed quarry face and houses the bedrooms with a garage and entrance under at the level of the quarry base. The principal living accommodation is expressed as a lightweight glazed ‘pavilion’ sitting on the solid plinth. It is set back to form an external terrace facing the sea and to reduce the apparent mass of the house.
The glazed pavilion is constructed with a steel frame and highly insulated timber infill panels clad in cedar and triple glazed windows. The roof, although thick internally to provide very high levels of insulation, is cantilevered on all sides with projecting expressed douglas fir rafters to give a thin, elegant leading edge.
The roof is finished in standing seem pre-fabricated grey zinc. The masonry base is finished in stone from re-cycled quarry waste.
The design uses the most energy efficient construction & technology where possible as part of a sustainable approach to building for the future:
• the external walls, floor and roof are insulated to a high standard and air infiltration is minimized.
• triple glazed windows with warm edge spacer bars, thermally broken frames and inert gas filled to achieve a whole window u-value of 0.7W/m2K.
• heat pump using a borehole as the ground source for the underfloor heating and hot water system with a closed combustion wood burning stove as back up.
• micro generation of renewable electricity using roof mounted Photovoltaic Panels.
• whole house heat recovery ventilation system.
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