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Dacorum

£100,000 to £249,999
50 Parkhill Road , Boxmoor , Hemel Hempstead , HP1 1TP , United Kingdom
This modest building set in the rear garden of this Turner prize shortlisted artist’s home amongst the remanence of an orchard. The building is an attractive yet economic solution to provide a large open plan storage space using large profile oak columns, beams and trusses, all joined together with considered bolted steel connections and tensile wires. A design for an Artist and his curator wife. The building was initially proposed as a repository for old works but has become a more accessible archive, a place to layout, show work and potentially a working space itself. Given the range of activities the proposal economically encloses a large clear space with a sawn oak structural skeleton with intricate expressed mild steel connections. The structure lifts the building in spirit and the geometry creates a dynamic sense of movement. The roof soffit gradually slopes to a hipped bay with a corner window with views into the old orchard, defining an intimate space within a larger whole; A space to talk around the artist work with potential clients and friends. A social or more collective end for the art both physically and metaphorically.