Secular Retreat – The Long House: Peter Zumthor Home, Devon
House South Devon, New English Property, Peter Zumthor Home, Residence in South West England
The Secular Retreat, Devon – Living Architecture
Secular Retreat South Devon, England – design by Architect Peter Zumthor in UK
15 Nov 2018
The Secular Retreat in Devon
Architect: Peter Zumthor, Architect
Location: South Devon, South West England, UK
The Secular Retreat
The Secular Retreat is designed by Peter Zumthor for Living Architecture and is scheduled for completion in December 2018.
«It has become rare to be able to sit in a house and look out at a beautiful landscape where no trace of another building interrupts the lines of the rolling hills. Quietness, contemplation, pure luxury. I could not resist to try to create this house.» Peter Zumthor
Photographs © Jack Hobhouse/Living Architecture
Living Architecture is delighted to announce the near completion of Secular Retreat, Chivelstone, Devon, designed by Pritzker prize-winning architect Peter Zumthor. It will be the architect?s first permanent building in the UK, and marks the seventh commission in a visionary series of houses designed by leading artists and architects in distinctive, unique sites across England.
The house is situated on a South Devon hilltop, one mile from the coast above the small Hamlet of Chivelstone.
The dramatic layered-concrete and glass design sits horizontally on the site, framing stunning views across the landscape in all directions. Handrammed concrete forms both the interior an...
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