THE LONG HOUSE

The Long House — SIPS, Brick & Olive Standing Seam

A new build detached house designed around two gabled volumes in close compositional dialogue. The structural system is SIPS throughout, delivering a high-performance thermal envelope within a precise, factory-controlled build process.

The material palette is deliberately restrained: a light buff brick to the lower storey grounds the building with weight and permanence, while an olive standing seam metal system wraps the upper volume and roof plane continuously, blurring the distinction between wall and roof and giving the house a quiet, monolithic quality against a green landscape backdrop.

The central glazed link between the two volumes floods the interior with borrowed light, and the full-height apex glazing to the main gable draws daylight deep into the first-floor plan. Internally, the house opens into a generous double-height kitchen and living hall with polished concrete floor, a mezzanine study level suspended within the roof volume, and a stair hall with floor-to-ceiling garden glazing throughout.

Simple in outline. Considered in detail.