Red + Black

Tiverton, Devon

The design for the site was primarily a reaction to adjacent larger scale development in the area where ubiquitous ‘noddy box’ developer housing is the standard bland variety with no sense of place or scale. The scheme designed evolved to make careful use of the whole site and to free up external garden and play space. The buildings press against and existing boundary wall and steal light from above. The building was designed in detail to use available local materials, of a high quality, that could be easily assembled. The whole scheme was built by three skilled builders, finished in high quality natural locally relevant materials, in a period of 6 months for a sum of £180k. This is extraordinarily efficient for this scale of building. The intention was to re-invent the vernacular developer housing standard and the scheme shows the way forward for providing good quality efficient housing.