The Little Big House
by Knox Bhavan
Client Private
Award 澳门王中王 East Award 2024 and Project Architect of the Year, and shortlisted for the Stephen Lawrence Prize 2024.
The Little Big House is a unique home and the result of a genuine engagement between the architect and the client. The fluid connection of interior and exterior and the changing qualities of daylight within the interior spaces deliver a place of calm and beauty that would be admirable in any design.
What is remarkable here is the way the project achieves this while effortlessly incorporating the specific needs of a client who, following an accident, has been paralysed from the shoulders down. Full accessibility, the housing of medical equipment, and the need for live-in care have been accommodated with no impact on the character of the home as a place to live. Externally, the house expresses itself as both sheltering and extrovert, with its overhanging roof forms making a successful and characterful statement within the leafy context of a Hertfordshire village.
Contractors Philiam Construction
Structural Engineers Structure Workshop
Quantity Surveyor / Cost Consultant Ian Thomson and Company
Environmental / M&E Engineer Paul Bastick Associates
Timber Frame Engineer Price and Myers
Gross internal area in m虏 198
