Morris + Company . + AJ
Planning permission for front and back extensions to self-build guru Walter Segal’s home.
The transformation aims to revive the original architecture of the house, built by the architect himself in 1965 and introduces a contemporary intervention to the iconic village home.
Located at 9 North Hill, the intervention on the modest, low-lying three-bedroom, two-story detached house, is estimated to start in January 2021 and complete October 2021. Providing a generous home for future generations, while complementing “the defining characteristic of Segals’ prefabricated, modular, timber-framed vernacular, and adopts his principles of efficient, lightweight, sustainable construction”, the suggested scheme by Morris + Company includes a front extension and a timber zig-zagged rear extension.
Following many of Segal’s pioneering construction principles, such as using readily available locally sourced materials, modular, lightweight timber-framed system, and eliminating the need for excessive foundations, the structure allows great flexibility in planning and infinite adaptations and variations in the future. In addition, featuring a composition of varied windows, each defined by the activities within, the design helps bring in natural light during the day, whilst at night, the battens are designed to soften the interior’s lighting, to omit a warm glow and create a lantern-like effect.
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