Crowbrook House, Harlow, United Kingdom. Architect: Knox Bhavan Architects LLP, 2012. Front entrance with raised planting beds.
Crowbrook is a new timber framed single-storey house for a client with rheumatoid arthritis. It replaces an existing bungalow of poor construction. However the original bungalow was well sited within a beautiful established garden. The new building is sited on the same footprint preserving the garden, views and aspect and miraculously feels twice the size. There is little circulation space, sliding doors enable every part of the house to be used and enjoyed. Fully accessible, it holds an easy relationship to the garden, over flush thresholds, through sliding doors and from projecting bay window seats. Whilst fully accessible the house has no feel of special measures, it is calm and simple - a space, which the client can move through and use with ease and no visible fuss.
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