This modern 2,700 sq ft brick house situated in Earlswood, United Kingdom, was designed in 2014 by Hall + Bednarczyk Architects.

Description by Hall + Bednarczyk Architects
The Nook is a new-build four bedroom family house set in a secluded valley in Monmouthshire, UK. Planning permission for this 2700 sq ft home was secured to replace a drab 1960?s bungalow that had previously occupied a corner of the 1 acre Wye Valley site. The aim of the project was to establish a durable and flexible home that capitalised on the best qualities of its setting. The plot?s fundamental appeal lay in its combination of attractive rural surroundings combined with good year-round solar exposure. A separate outbuilding was also later added to provide a carport and garden storage. The design adopts the simple, confident massing evident in the region?s agricultural structures, where both traditional stone barns and the spare steel-framed modern structures now used by farmers tend to possess a visual clarity and generosity of scale absent from most rural dwellings. A rectangular floor plan provided efficiency, flexibility and economy. The adoption of a steel frame enabled significant spans to cater for large openings in the building elevation and allowed the structural flexibility to omit floor sections and thereby create expansive and playful spaces within the interior. The privacy of the house?s rural location enables generous areas of glazing to be employed, illuminating the...