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Hugh Strange Architects . photos: © Jason Orton

Recalling the enclosed moorland farmsteads of the West Country, this single storey courtyard house for a farm manager nestles into the wooded corner of a field. With only a mile to the Atlantic coast, the building looks to protect from the elements by adopting an introverted courtyard house typology; the two arms of its L-shape plan sheltering a south facing garden. Although by necessity the house is close to the neighbouring livestock barn, its domesticity does not intrude into the agricultural setting, asserting its presence without diminishing the character of the field. Continue reading Hugh Strange

Hugh Strange Architects

Works within and to the rear of a Grade II listed villa focussed on creating a new garden room which, together with the neighbouring painting studio, shelters under a large Eucalyptus tree. Within this garden environment the project provides an exercise space and bathing areas, both inside and outside the building. Continue reading Hugh Strange

Hugh Strange Architects . photos: © david grandorge

Nestled beneath a large Eucalyptus tree, the project provides a small studio space for painting at the end of a long garden. The studio is in very close proximity to the tree, and so the foundations are designed in order to minimise impact on the roots. Continue reading Hugh Strange

Hugh Strange Architects . photos: © David Grandorge

The project provides an enlarged home for a photographer and her family in Peckham, London, completely transforming the existing house. Following the development of railway connections into central London, the surrounding area established itself in the mid 1800’s as an attractive suburb with local housing stock primarily comprised of parallel terraces. The client’s three-storey house is sited within the middle of one of these Victorian rows, displaying from the street a degree of uniformity with its neighbours. Though a sizeable house, the existing lower floors were relatively constrained and largely unconnected with the garden space to the rear. Continue reading Hugh Strange

Hugh Strange Architects . photos: © David Grandorge

A small, dilapidated outbuilding, originally used to house livestock, has been renovated to provide a one-room private studio space within a linear village on the southern edge of the North Yorkshire Moors national park. Continue reading Hugh Strange