1704_Wuduhus Huntingdon House
1704_Wuduhus Huntingdon House, Cambridgeshire Property Images, English Building Photos, Architecture
1704_Wuduhus, Huntingdon Home
29 May 2022
Location: Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire, southeast England, United Kingdom
Design: Mole Architects
Photos by Matt Smith
1704_Wuduhus Huntingdon House
Jury Report
This project has been driven by a client with a very clear sense of destination ? the creation of a place to live after retiring as a city headteacher with as little environmental impact as possible: a desire for compact self-sufficiency. Having identified a site on the edge of a fen village she contacted Mole Architects to design her an appropriate house.
What emerged is an exemplar of the Passivhaus approach: an upside-down arrangement with a first floor kitchen, living room and bedroom looking out for miles over the surrounding fens at both the back and front of the house, while the ground floor offers more introverted spaces, including a spare bedroom, utility spaces and study. Externally, well-detailed larchboard cladding combined with a butterfly roof and celebratory rainwater pipe offer a light-hearted reference to the agricultural tradition of farm buildings on the edge of fen settlements.
The client is evidently delighted, proudly indicating the house?s energy use, which regularly hovers close to zero. Her eminently practical approach has led to the installation of a lift and mid-level power sockets, in anticipation of future decline in mobility. Potential maintenan...
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