Orchard House, Manor Road, Wantage

The client required architectural services for the construction of a new dwelling on land to the west of Manor Road, Wantage, Oxfordshire.

The new house was treated as a series of ‘at-topped’ linear volumes splayed at slightly different angles to each other. The building volumes create a strong and elegant form which, with the use of different materials and appropriate expanses of glazing, float the upper floors above ground level creating a relationship within the newly proposed tree canopies.

Between the two wings, a lightweight/transparent glazed atrium signifies the main vertical circulation zone. A single storey swimming lane structure is proposed to be adjacent to the larger two storey main volume.

Client
Private client

Location
Land at Manor Road, Wantage, Oxfordshire

Facility
Residential

Size
342m² | 3681 sqft

Scope
architecture, interior architecture

 

The building volumes create a strong and elegant form which, with the use of different materials and appropriate expanses of glazing, float the upper floors above ground level creating a relationship within the newly proposed tree canopies.