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Ty Pren
Designed by Feilden Fowles - London, UK - this house called Ty Pren is a passive long house, inspired by the rich local vernacular of the Brecon Beacons. This typology is emphasised as a crisp extrusion, without eaves.
Passive solar principles have driven the elevation treatment, opening to the southerly views over Pen Y Fan with a more robust treatment protecting against to the harsh weather from the north. The gabled timber-framed building is clad on three sides in larch felled from the owners' land.
Eight larch trees have been planted locally to replace the cladding after twenty-five years, while the removed cladding will be burnt to heat the house.
Internally, the plan is strictly modernist along two key axis and with all the services housed in a deep north wall, including the bathrooms and stairs. A double height central void provides a natural stack for hot air from the stove and solar gains to distribute to the upper floors. The house is exceedingly green with an emission rate of a mere 6kg/ CO2/ year.
Photographer
David Grandorge
Feilden Fowles
96 Teesdale Street London E2 6PU | UK
Tel +44 (0)20 7033 4594
web site | e-mail
Designed by Feilden Fowles - London, UK - this house called Ty Pren is a passive long house, inspired by the rich local vernacular of the Brecon Beacons. This typology is emphasised as a crisp extrusion, without eaves.
Passive solar principles have driven the elevation treatment, opening to the southerly views over Pen Y Fan with a more robust treatment protecting against to the harsh weather from the north. The gabled timber-framed building is clad on three sides in larch felled from the owners' land.
Eight larch trees have been planted locally to replace the cladding after twenty-five years, while the removed cladding will be burnt to heat the house.
Internally, the plan is strictly modernist along two key axis and with all the services housed in a deep north wall, including the bathrooms and stairs. A double height central void provides a natural stack for hot air from the stove and solar gains to distribute to the upper floors. The house is exceedingly green with an emission rate of a mere 6kg/ CO2/ year.
Photographer
David Grandorge
Feilden Fowles
96 Teesdale Street London E2 6PU | UK
Tel +44 (0)20 7033 4594
web site | e-mail
