Sliding Glass Roof House Grand Designs

Adam and nicola s grand designs for engine house.

Sliding glass roof house grand designs.

Peckham monty and clare are another couple who decide building their own home in london is the cheaper option. Monty ravenscroft and clare loewe can t afford to buy a house in london so they ve decided to build one. The sliding glass roof house aka urban space pod. The separated forms are transformed by a 20 ton mobile roof wall enclosure which traverses the site creating combinations of enclosure open air living and framing of views according to position.

The sliding glass roof house aka urban space pod cossall park peckham london. They snapped up a dirt cheap slither of land in peckham at an auction only to be told it was too small to put a house on. Undeterred engineering whiz monty designs and builds an extraordinary experimental house complete with sliding glass roof lights and mezzanine bedroom pods and brings. Series 5 channel 4 s grand designs.

Was restored from a ruin to a stunning seven bedroom house in 2004 appearing on grand designs. Revisited from grand designs abroad 13 october 2004 tuscany italy. They had big plans for the grade ii listed property. Sliding glass roof house peckham revisited by kevin mccloud and channel 4.

The properties featured in the series vary wildly from homes underground to converted water towers with the only common factor being that they re all rather unusual or extravagant in some way. Red rubber membrane and glass red and black stained larch. 13 april 2005 3 the 16th century farmhouse. Adam and nicola also planned to put in massive georgian windows a glass balcony and rebuilt the roof.

As seen on channel 4 s grand designs the opening glass roof and sliding bed bath typify this unique and extraordinary response to the constraints and opportunities of a tight budget on an unusable brownfield site. 9 may 2007 12 the glass timber house dulwich london. Metacritic tv episode reviews revisited. The sliding glass roof house peckham kevin returns monty and clare s home in london.

Adam and nicola estimated that the both engine house would cost 100 000 to renovate each. Grand designs show summary grand designs is a channel 4 tv series covering unusual architectural house building projects presented by kevin mccloud. View grand designs virtual tour. The composition is further defined by material and colour.

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