Headbourne Worthy Farm House & Piggery
Winchester, Hampshire
3la were appointed to provide landscape design services for the planning application for the extension and refurbishment to the existing farm house development and also to discharge the landscape planning conditions associated with the Piggery outbuilding and swimming pool. The site has been split into two applications, therefore seamlessly tying the proposals together between the Farm House to the Piggery embedding the architecture within the natural rural landscape context.
Simple geometry of retaining walls retain the existing level changes sweeping the northern and eastern flanks of the building, provide protection and enclosure to a generous formal hard landscaped terrace. Utilising the embankment provides the setting for a naturalistic planting backdrop blending into the adjacent landscape. Recessed steps to the embankment have been carefully positioned opposite the proposed atrium, leading the viewer to the higher landscaped terrace where a feature bench sits framing views over the surrounding fields or back towards to house.
The existing landscape setting at the farm appears somewhat fragmented, it speaks of an agricultural past; probably an early 20th century golden age of land-based life. This has left the land associated with the Piggery somewhat fragmented, there is lawn, field and overgrown meadow. The proposals for the Piggery seek to lightly draw those typologies together into a single image of an extended floral meadow, an arcing walk and a swimming pool at the centre minimally elaborated with an ornamental planting scheme. The fundamental move is to knit the parts together without damaging the specialness that is there; Tying in the old with the new. It is meadow grass improvements wrapping around the pool terrace; it is a gentle treatment of an open and mature landscape with the minimum of fuss.
Project Status
Planning Approval Granted
Under Construction
Architect
OB Architecture
Landscape Architect & Garden Designer
3LA Studio