While the ground floor can be used as single storey home, the first floor area provide additional accommodation for family, and also a studio space for home working and artwork. The existing boundaries of the current site will be enhanced with new brickwork walls, wooden gates and railing to the canal side. The layout of the proposed building has been designed to be a flexible new home. Also the proposed building will be very sustainable over the longer term in terms of energy, and is also within convenient walking distance to local facilities. It is planned that a local builder and local materials, labour and resources would be used, which would benefit the local economy. The proposed dwelling is intended to be the main retirement home of the owners, who have always wanted to design and “self build” their own home. The rear the site is bounded by the canal. It is positioned adjacent to an existing terrace of 2 storey dwellings on one side, and another vacant 3 storey warehouse building. The units that have now been demolished and it has been derelict for over 10 years. The currently vacant site for the proposed dwelling is a brownfield site, which previously houses with previous industrial use that included a stonemasons and a car sales plot. As long term local residents in the area they had been looking for a waterside site to build their dream home for many years and having purchased the site, they are now keen to invest in the area, which is also experiencing other nearby residential development. The current site owners are seeking create a new, contemporary, environmentally sustainable, self build dwelling for their retirement- Swan Lodge. Swan Lodge, Design Statement for a new dwelling at Lisle Street, Loughborough This is the famous little blue book that you can’t afford to be without. The book provides guidance on a range of tasks, from complying with the Building Regulations, including the recent revisions to Part L, to helping with planning, use of materials and detailing.Ĭompact and easy to use, the Architect’s Pocket Book has sold well over 65,000 copies to the nation’s architects, architecture students, designers and construction professionals who do not have an architectural background but need to understand the basics, fast. This handy pocket book brings together a wealth of useful information that architects need on a daily basis - on site or in the studio. I am proud to have contributed to the 4th edition of the Architect Pocket Book having previously contributed to the previous editions on Computer Aided Design (CAD) and now it includes a section on Building Information Modelling (BIM).
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