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Norfolk ‘Stuff’

Posted on March 9, 2011 by Matt Wood

Well, that’s enough policy-wonking for now. I said my ‘thatch-fest’ a couple of weeks ago could be a segue into some stuff on ‘stuff’– or ‘what we make buildings out of’. I took this picture (below) while I was researching … Continue reading →

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Thatch-fest!

Posted on February 1, 2011 by Matt Wood

Writing about McCreanor Lavington’s Langerak reminded me of another Dutch project we came across a couple of weeks ago at Lucas Hickman Smith while researching ‘contemporary thatch’. Bureau B&B’s ‘Entreehuis’ was published on the excellent dezeen.com.

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Contemporary Farmsteads #3

Posted on January 24, 2011 by Matt Wood

If the contemporary ‘farmstead’ described in the last ‘Farmstead’ post was a bit too literal, I thought this next one might be the antidote: a project by MacCreanor Lavington published nearly ten years ago which must have made quite an … Continue reading →

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Contemporary ‘Farmsteads’ #2

Posted on January 14, 2011 by Matt Wood

Before I signed off at the end of the year I was talking about contemporary ‘farmsteads’ – one of my four rural archetypes. I had it in mind to talk about how a dense grouping of dwellings laid out around … Continue reading →

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Roofs Across Fields #4 – A Modern ‘Take’

Posted on December 10, 2010 by Matt Wood

As I said before (here), my opinion that the roof is more important than the wall in the rural landscape of Norfolk was based in no small part on hours spent gazing out of train windows on the Norwich to … Continue reading →

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Roofs Across Fields #3

Posted on November 25, 2010 by Matt Wood

I talked in the last post about how growing trees can change the appearance of an urban edge over time, which reminded me…

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Roofs Across Fields #2

Posted on November 24, 2010 by Matt Wood

The observations I’ve made so far about the Norfolk landscape and its built forms (my four archetypes) might be interesting to some of you in their own right, but what I’m really interested in is how they might inform how … Continue reading →

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Roofs Across Fields

Posted on November 17, 2010 by Matt Wood

Hitherto I’ve described four rural archetypes that I identified when I showed some clients around Norfolk this summer: the nucleated and non-nucleated village, the wide-fronted house and the farmstead. I haven’t listed ‘roofs across fields’ as an archetype, but it … Continue reading →

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