{"id":7103,"date":"2018-02-22T15:19:53","date_gmt":"2018-02-22T15:19:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bwparchitects.com\/?p=7103"},"modified":"2018-02-23T10:02:07","modified_gmt":"2018-02-23T10:02:07","slug":"timberframe-replacement-home-ottershaw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bwparchitects.com\/timberframe-replacement-home-ottershaw\/","title":{"rendered":"Timberframe replacement home, Ottershaw"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Overlooking open farmland to the south, this backland site is accessed down a narrow driveway between a pair of ordinary looking detached houses in Ottershaw, Surrey.<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-7103 gallery-columns-7 gallery-size-colormag-featured-image'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.bwparchitects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/BRXV4.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"445\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bwparchitects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/BRXV4-800x445.jpg\" class=\"attachment-colormag-featured-image size-colormag-featured-image\" alt=\"Ottershaw, Surrey\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.bwparchitects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/BRXV3.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"445\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bwparchitects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/BRXV3-800x445.jpg\" class=\"attachment-colormag-featured-image size-colormag-featured-image\" alt=\"Ottershaw, Surrey\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.bwparchitects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/BRXV2.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"445\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bwparchitects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/BRXV2-800x445.jpg\" class=\"attachment-colormag-featured-image size-colormag-featured-image\" alt=\"Ottershaw, Surrey\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.bwparchitects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/BRXV1.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"445\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bwparchitects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/BRXV1-800x445.jpg\" class=\"attachment-colormag-featured-image size-colormag-featured-image\" alt=\"Ottershaw, Surrey\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.bwparchitects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/BRXSE.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"445\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bwparchitects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/BRXSE-800x445.jpg\" class=\"attachment-colormag-featured-image size-colormag-featured-image\" alt=\"Ottershaw, Surrey\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.bwparchitects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/BRXRE.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"445\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bwparchitects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/BRXRE-800x445.jpg\" class=\"attachment-colormag-featured-image size-colormag-featured-image\" alt=\"Ottershaw, Surrey\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.bwparchitects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/BRXFE.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"445\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bwparchitects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/BRXFE-800x445.jpg\" class=\"attachment-colormag-featured-image size-colormag-featured-image\" alt=\"Ottershaw, Surrey\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>Replacing an existing chalet bungalow with a full two storey house while still satisfying the planners was always going to be a challenge and several different design options were explored for the roof form.<\/p>\n<p>The final approved scheme, due for completion on site in Spring 2018, included a shallow monopitch roof to create full height first floor spaces while maintaining a lower eaves to the north front elevation.<\/p>\n<p>The main timberframe and foundations were build by <a href=\"http:\/\/mbctimberframe.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MBC Timberframe <\/a>who specialise in Passivhaus buildings. 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U-Values down at 0.12 and with guaranteed air-permeability rates below 0.6 air changes per hour help drive energy costs down.<\/p>\n<p>A standing seam zinc roof with pre-weathered ash Thermowood cladding over a self-coloured acrylic white render with light grey aluminium windows complete the palette of materials.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Overlooking open farmland to the south, this backland site is accessed down a narrow driveway between a pair of ordinary<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":7100,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[133,6,10,174],"tags":[193,196,132,188],"class_list":["post-7103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-contemporary-new-homes","category-projects","category-residential-new-build","category-timberframe-homes","tag-bwp-architects","tag-contemporary-news","tag-passivhaus","tag-surrey-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwparchitects.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwparchitects.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwparchitects.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwparchitects.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwparchitects.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwparchitects.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7103\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwparchitects.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwparchitects.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwparchitects.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwparchitects.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}