Baydons Development

This three-house development was located on a piece of land, adjacent to a small wood, on which a national homebuilder had already gained permission for a larger number of properties. During their planning process, the land had been left fallow and had begun re-wilding. As such there was a significant challenge to design a scheme that continued that process rather than scrub it clean. Each house has a formalised front southernly garden on the area of the site with lower biodiversity. Then a wild, biodiverse rear garden on the land that was wilder and more closely associated with the wood.

The site formed a hinterland between the urban and the rural realms and as such the houses follow that change blending between the urban scale and materiality of plot 1 and the partially subterranean timber monolithic barn form of plot 3.