RIBA House of the Year 2024 shortlist: Farmworker's House

[@aletverster]

Very cleverly designed. I love that RIBA is also shortlisting buildings that aren't multi-million pound builds. Good architecture is good architecture!

[@keithronson2624]

Excellent! Best on the short list. Would live here in a heartbeat. A very truthful building. Simple yet strong and fits in with the landscape. Plus provides a proper family home.

[@emmabrooker166]

Beautiful interior. Interesting influences of medieval hall, Roman villa and Irish stone cottage.

[@David-th2ug]

My first feeling on seeing this dwelling was a Roman villa!

[@sandywyper]

Material choices in Cornwall are a massive challenge. Most of the stuff being build around here will need attention in 15-20 years. This looks like it should age very nicely.

[@atoms-to-atoms]

Great architecture Hugh...great that Riba has chosen a building that is designed around great planning rather than trying to make the latest Grand designs episode.

[@muratoner2338]

Simple, practical, private...my dream house!

[@zinniawilliams]

I was thinking the same thing. I love it🥺

[@5teffi3]

A stunning shortlist, and until watching this video I thought it was almost impossible to set one apart as a 'winner', but turns out this is my favourite.. the project really touched me/moved me, thank you. Good luck!

[@Tomm9y]

I like that this house is comfortable for a family, generous rooms, a decent secure outdoor space, capturing the light but sheltered from the wind. We need more houses like this across the country. My guess is that the materials and construction of this house were a fraction of what people are being charged for other new family homes across the country. Cut out the huge developer profits and the obscene land values, then wonderful homes can be created. We should only pay for the construction. I wish architects and engineers would help devise a route for generous, efficient housing free of the profiteering and huge land values.

[@Geezman1977]

I love how each of the RIBA HOTY houses are unique in their look and feel. I want to live in all of them.

[@janelte]

unpretentious and beautifully elegant. i love it

[@marc0523]

Love it, but why no solar panels on the roof? Seems like a perfect building for it.

[@Tuckerz5d]

I love a courtyard house….

[@banditbaker1675]

Simple beauty is simply beautiful.........

[@srossgower]

This one and the Peckham one are my favourites.

[@MrFlyingguy]

simplicity of the palette of materials and choice of external texture is spot on for Cornwall, surprised that you werent forced to use a natural roofing material but the galv steel roof almost gives a phyletic shine as would a slate. Brilliant execution

[@NinivehGaia]

❤ simple at its finest

[@SN-sz7kw]

Gosh, I love this. 💗

[@Isabelle-cn9ur]

Très bien conçu, et aussi très beau dans sa sobriété, un peu trop gris sur les façades extérieures.

[@HistoricHomePlans]

Lovely! It reminds me of the old adobe houses of the American Southwest, where I grew up. You mentioned porotherm for the walls. I love the exposed timber of the roof. How is the roof insulated? On top of the plywood deck? With what material?

[@prosen426]

I was wondering the same thing! Maybe we'll get an answer one day :')

[@Stewart_Bell]

I'm a big fan of Hugh Strange. He first came to my attention when i looked more deeply into The Collection in Lincoln. I have read he was the project architect although at a time prior to setting up gis own practice. Some of the echos on this farmhouse are in common with The Collection which makes me wonder if that was the collaboration mentioned here. Hugh's work is extremely fine in my opinion, both on paper in 2d as well as the built environment 3d. Uncommonly talented and with an exceptional sensitivity in his work. Good luck to him.

[@noga8974]

Not sure about this, the best thing about living on the atlantic coast is the light and the sky and the thrill of atlantic storms.

[@nickinthefield4202]

Solar panels?

[@Colin-pg2su]

Lovely

[@giovannagallottini]

Nice! Very simple layout, responsive to the climate and to the site. Small but functional. I love it except the steps down to the living room. It would be better all on the same floor. Also not sure about the ceilings. Noisy and not energy efficient?

[@alysawakefield4963]

The bedrooms need the lights turned on! very dark and uninviting.

[@kafkaspen]

Windows too small

[@mmau]

Great

[@arlenehutchinson9259]

Where are the views?

[@quaant-he1nz]

Creatively baron design I don't understand why this was shortlisted? how can you have such a great brief and end up with a bunch of nothing? having grown up on a farm in this environment i would hate to live in this thing.

[@namtrinhquoc7465]

a real project

[@j.c.7780]

Really? Were it not for the garden, it looks like a doctor's office built in the 70s. The interior is hardly anything to write home about either. There are some stunning entries on this shortlist but this is not one of them.

[@Jakey.H]

What is the outside of the house made of?

[@JillOsgerby]

House looks like a public toilet from the outside. Thank goodness interior is an improvement.

[@mikehotwheelz]

In this day and age any new build house not built with solar panels is an opportunity lost

[@iscadean6038]

Pebble dash/harl/lime render seems a strange outer skin. It becomes dirty quickly and weathers poorly. A more polished surface would last better but, of course, would not achieve your aesthetic of a rural cottage with a lumpy appearance. In that sense, the clipped, neat, building is in conflict with its outer skin finish.

[@alko_xo]

2:29 Sorry, but from the outside it looks like the Sachsenhausen concentration camp.

[@giovannagallottini]

The outside could have been made less plain.

[@fintan5576]

Haha, that's what I thought too

[@abbx022]

Why does it have such an ugly exterior ? Fantastic inside but it looks like a concrete shed from outside … why not build in natural materials like brick or stone

[@giovannagallottini]

I do not object to concrete, but it could have been made more attractive.

[@herokindon]

from a practical perspective I could make use of the wide open porch, but the rest of the project was just meh :)

[@janoginski5557]

Apologies but it has all the charm of a communist toilet block.

[@kafkaspen]

Not at all. If that were the case it would have been painted green 😂

[@roygavin8219]

The outside looks like a public toilet and the inside is dark and gloomy.

[@FilmmakersTalks]

it is trapped in tradition and theories. why does a farmer need a courtyard when he is living in nature. the whole farm can be its courtyard. the design sould focus on the view to the surrounding of the house.

[@sandywyper]

Come to Cornwall in Winter, you will understand.

[@DM-ur8vc]

@@sandywyper At which time you wont be lounging around outside. That wall has to be one of the most redundant features.

[@user1-2-3-8-9]

This property is owned by Alaya R .Get your ass if in 24 hours .

[@rover100bunson]

Looks like a cow shed

[@paulfowler3416]

I find farm workers house quite depressing for some reason.

[@hgtnbugo1750]

It’s a bore! Nowonder so many words had to be used to explain its merit.

[@brianparkhurst1019]

I've seen soviet apartment blocks with more soul. Rectangular, white, beige. Current "architecture" styling is very poor. I will be so glad when mid cent revival is over.

[@OutofTouch73]

There's nothing 'mid century' about this house.

[@brianparkhurst1019]

@OutofTouch73 have you seen houses from the 1950's. It's a box ranch. Plain, uninspired tract home.

[@DM-ur8vc]

@@OutofTouch73 Other than the fact that it's reminiscent of Soviet architecture.

[@paulfowler3416]

They all seem to have these crap ceilings, annoying, messy, dusty. The beams are fine but fill in the spaces ffs

[@herokindon]

yeah man, and it's a space that swallows up the heat

[@jamesdirect]

Ceiling fans will be useful.

[@MaliMorgan-g5i]

The exterior is quite ugly.

[@stockbag]

Peckham is the best candidate. People with endless fields around them just reek of privilege. Tory membership fees are down, will the gritty city beat these builds with no bus stops in walking distance?

[@k.e.becquer4681]

Totally agree. My favourite as well.

[@roseharvey2664]

I really liked Peckham too.

[@hdegraaf3656]

Nice bunker. Ugh. 😢

[@climatecypher]

Closed garden is a mistake.

[@smoath]

Even a fence instead of a wall would have been a massive improvement

[@Yogi5D]

I thought its for wind protection

[@smoath]

@@Yogi5Ddid you see all the trees on that side of the house? Plus, like I said, they could have used a fence. It's the same old architects with their industrial minimalist impulse which they force on everyone. Sorry for sounding negative, I actually used to have the same taste myself, I just think it staled a long time ago.

[@marcogijsen5508]

It does sound negative. Thought of the windy climate?

[@smoath]

@@marcogijsen5508 oh dear, oh dear. I've mentioned twice that a fence would do the same job. How can you fail so spectacularly at reading English?

[@smoath]

Using a boundary wall, instead of a boundary fence, is very telling about what architects want to impose on people.

[@Wayfarer-Sailing]

Which people? Can you expand - what do they want to impose? Security, shelter, privacy...?

[@giovannagallottini]

I do not agree. In that location having shelter from the wind a degree of privacy is very soothing.

[@smoath]

@@giovannagallottini @giovannagallottini Maybe read my comment again, if you want to understand how you assumed I said something, that I didn't actually say. (Maybe I should help you by explaining that a fence can be just as private as a wall, if it's built to be)

[@giovannagallottini]

@@smoath Sorry, I do not understand what you are referring to. A wood fence requires more maintenance and is not as strong as a wall. There is a tradition of walled gardens. I find it to be personal preference and a matter of local conditions. BTW- at my place I have a wood slat fence as well as a wire fence with privacy cloth. No wall.:)

[@DM-ur8vc]

@@giovannagallottini 'Degree of privacy' in the middle of a farm, with a tree screen and no road?