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Tag Archives: rural archetypes
Double Plus…
Two rural houses have caught my attention in the last few weeks, both in a rural location, both in their own way engaging their local context and architectural heritage.
Posted in Architecture/Design
Tagged Bere Leys, design/architecture, Grand Designs, Herring Homes, Long Farm, Lucy Marston, roofs, rural archetypes, simplicity, thatch, wide-fronted house
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A Ruralise ‘Reader’
It’s been a while since my last post, the final installment of my Forest Village epic. The piece was well-received: specifically one international journal has picked up on it and I have done a re-write for publication, hopefully in their … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture/Design, Norfolk DNA
Tagged design quality, design/architecture, farmstead, history, house-builders, housing delivery, local distinctiveness, materials, modernism, Norfolk, normal, roofs, rural archetypes, simplicity, Tayler and Green, thatch, vernacular, village, wide-fronted house
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Beautiful Farm Buildings?
I’ve talked in previous posts about ‘farmsteads’ – one of the four ‘rural archetypes’ I identified for my guided tour of Norfolk with Beyond Green last summer. I suggested one might plan a relatively dense knot of new homes around … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture/Design, Norfolk DNA
Tagged farm buildings, farmstead, Holkham, Norfolk, roofs, rural archetypes
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The Wide-Fronted House #4
In a recent post I described how the square-on-plan semi, with front and back living rooms became ‘universal’ during the inter-War period. Private house-builders built three-quarters of the 4 million news homes produced in the period, mostly without the help … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture/Design
Tagged design/architecture, hedges, house-builders, pastiche, rural archetypes, wide-fronted house
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The Wide-Fronted House #3
The terraced house was the norm for new homes during the late nineteenth century up to the First World War (see previous post), but thereafter it was the semi-detached house that emerged as the standard format for council-housing and private … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture/Design
Tagged 1944 Housing Manual, design/architecture, English Semi-Detached House, English Terraced House, history, house-builders, rural archetypes, semi, Tayler and Green, terrace, Tudor Walters Report, wide-fronted house
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The Wide-Fronted House #2
In a previous post (way back in October!) I wrote about the wide-fronted house, the third of four ‘rural archetypes’ I described during the tour of Norfolk I did for Beyond Green last summer. I explained that the three- then … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture/Design, Norfolk DNA
Tagged design/architecture, English Terraced House, history, parker and unwin, rural archetypes, wide-fronted house
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Contemporary ‘Farmsteads’ #2
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
Posted in Architecture/Design, Norfolk DNA
Tagged design quality, farmstead, Norfolk, pastiche, planning, roofs, rural archetypes, vernacular
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Contemporary ‘Farmsteads’?
If Crown Paddock serves as a rather literal exemplar of the ‘farmstead’ (one of my four rural archetypes), how about this from Dutch architects Atelier Pro, in a proposal for new development around Norwich Research Park led by Norwich-based development … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture/Design, Norfolk DNA
Tagged design/architecture, farmstead, Norfolk, rural archetypes, settlement pattern
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Roofs Across Fields #4 – A Modern ‘Take’
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
Posted in Architecture/Design, Norfolk DNA
Tagged design/architecture, farmstead, modernism, Norfolk, pan-tiles, roofs, rural archetypes
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Roofs Across Fields #2
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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Tagged design/architecture, house-builders, Norfolk, roofs, rural archetypes, urban edge, wide-fronted house
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