Project: Lakeside Houses, Cotswold’s Water Park

A holiday home complex in the Cotswold’s Water Park, JPA designed the second and final phase of a 550 home complex, to provide 300 new homes together with leisure and communuty buildings, set around lakes.

With the ambition to create a unified complex, yet provide some individuality to each house, so the houses are designed as a ‘kit-of-parts’, with a common ground floor plan that allows for a variety of upper volumes and a variety of materials so no two houses would be the same.

A light masonry provides the unifying element, with angular forms above clad in brick, timber boarding, zinc or render – all natural materials and in a restrtained colour platette that makes for an organic assemblage on the water’s edge.

PROJECT DETAILS

Lower Mill Estate is a community of second homes on a former quarry site set in the Cotswold’s Water Park.

JPA were commissioned to design the final phase of 300 new homes with the brief to create a new feel for the estate that places the natural environment first. The idea was to create a common language and a ‘kit-of-parts’ to form the houses of varying sizes and heights.

A plot size for each house of 12 metres wide and 15 metres deep was adopted – every house faces onto a lakeside.

Six house types have been developed, all with a common ground floor plan providing living and kitchen space opening directly onto a deck to enjoy the lakeside, with a covered parking/ storage area. Above, the houses have a variety of volumes to create additional living space and bedrooms, all given individuality by different roof forms, fenestration and materials. With this permutation of forms and materials, the six types never repeat so each of the 300 new homes are unique, while all conform to a restrained material palette and a set of architectural forms.

The material palette chosen uses a buff brick or Cotswold stone as the

common denominators to tie all houses together, and is always employed at ground floor level – to the upper levels, both natural and black stained timber boarding, zinc cladding, brick and acrylic render in a range of colours based on the plumage of the Ruddy duck are used. Roof terraces allow for additional outdoor amenity space at first floor level.

Monopitch roof forms ensure that each house ‘leans’ towards its neighbour and creates an asymetrical, picturesque composition for each group of dwellings.

The overall ambition is to create homes that belong to nature and sit harmoniously within it and make great places to enjoy living by the water.

Client: Lower Mill EstateStatus: OngoingContract value: -

Landscape Architects: The Landscape PracticeM+E Engineers: Isoenergy

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