Redland House by Emmett Russell Architects
Redland House is a low energy house located in Bristol, United Kingdom, designed in 2021 by Emmett Russell Architects.
Description
Redland is a Victorian suburb of Bristol that was built on the hills to the North of the old city in the latter decades of the Nineteenth Century. The original development of the suburb coincided with the construction of a new railway network across the city. The site for this project sits on a triangular piece of land between a terrace of Victorian houses and the adjacent railway embankment. The house uses the unusual site geometry to create a dynamic series of spaces over three storeys. Each floor of the building addresses the surrounding urban landscape in a different way and frames views in different directions. At ground floor the house extends out to the rear and opens up to maximise the connection with the garden. The open plan living, dining and kitchen area brings together the geometry of the railway with that of the adjacent terrace to create space that pivots around a covered patio. On the first floor two bedrooms share a balcony that looks south towards the railway embankment. The master bedroom on the second floor has its own west facing balcony that looks towards the street and the evening sun.
The brief for the project asked for a low energy family house and it has been designed by Bristol architects Emmett Russell Architects to address issues of energy use in a number of ways. The timber frame construction ...
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