walton house
architecture 2B were commissioned by a private client to design a contemporary manor house in the wonderful countryside of Kirklees using the planning policy PPS7 guidelines. Integration and contrast with the landscape were key to the design of this house, dry-stone walls emerge from the landscape to form boundary walls, then building walls. Glass allows the inside and outside spaces to blur, bringing the landscape into the house, and at the same time offering grand vistas of the countryside beyond. Ecology is key, using renewable energy resources including ground tubes and biomass fuel systems, grey water recycling and reed-bed filtration.