The Quest Residence, Swanage Residence, Residential Development, English Architecture Images
The Quest Residence in Swanage
Single-Story Home in Dorset, England, UK ? design by Strom Architects
Images updated 12 Mar 2021 + 22 Nov 2017
The Quest Residence
Design: Strom Architects
Location: Dorset, England
The Quest Residence

The latest two projects shortlisted for the 2017 RIBA House of the Year are:
The Quest by Strom Architects

Newhouse of Auchengree by Ann Nisbet Studio
They join the following four houses on the shortlist, with another one yet to be announced:
Caring Wood by James Macdonald Wright and Niall Maxwell

Shawm House by MawsonKerr Architects

Ness Point by Tonkin Liu

6 Wood Lane by Birds Portchmouth Russum
The final house to make the shortlist and the winner of the 2017 RIBA House of the Year will be announced on screen during the final episode of Grand Designs: House of the Year (to be broadcast on Tuesday 28 November).

The 2017 RIBA House of the Year is sponsored by Paint & Paper Library.

Architect Magnus Strom created a very simple structural concept for the building.. This is a single-story dwelling for octogenarian clients and their disabled daughter. They wrote a two-page brief which they gave to the architects and said “Get on with it.”

The design has surpassed the aspirations of the client providing flexible deep open plan (8 metres deep) living in a warm and comfortable environment, with a fantastic view out to the south west of...