The client was a young and growing family of three, requiring more space to accommodate child’s play as ell as home working for both wife and husband, each with their own successful career one in journalism and the other in development and regeneration, respectively. The project was aimed at creating a unified series of flowing, contemporary spaces, allowing a greater degree of flexibility, linking internal spaces to the impressive rolling fields to the south, and the higher meadow land to the north. Equally, the brief called for a building with character and personality, respectful of the existing Oast house, and taking advantage of the views and surrounding environment. A key objective of the brief was to ‘rediscover’ the integrity of the building through careful observation and research where new additions and alterations would work harmoniously to create a new envisioned whole. However, the core ambition was to create a dwelling, which over time would come to reflect an exemplar approach to contemporary rural renovation work; and to create a flexible living environment for the growing family within the exceptional surroundings.