| Client Architect Image Credits |
Private Edgley Design Jack Hobhouse |
Awards | RIBA London Award Stephen Lawrence Prize Finalist Daily Telegraph Homebuilding and Renovating Award Sunday Times British Home Award Commendation |
The pear tree house is built around a 100-year-old pear tree, a remnant of the site’s history as a Victorian fruit orchard. The house is built around the tree in two volumes and linked by a glass walkway. Board marked concrete to the ground floor walls support a timber box at first floor, with openings framed by gold aluminium trims. The lower portion of each block is made from a combination of woodgrain-imprinted concrete and glass. The larch formwork used to create the concrete walls is reused as cladding for the timber-framed upper storeys.
We provided all mechanical and electrical services for the project. Several energy-saving features are built into the house's design, including rainwater harvesting, thermodynamic roof panels that supply hot water and air-source heat pumps. The whole structure stands on pile foundations designed to prevent any damage to the tree roots.
