Two of our projects are shortlisted for the 2016 West of England Regional LABC Building Excellence Awards in the category: best extension to an existing home.
The extension to Old Barn in South Gloucestershire creates a large contemporary kitchen on the side of a converted barn. Sustainable features include: untreated Cedar cladding and a Bauder Sedum roof. The whole house conversion and extension in Bishopston has transformed a small Victorian house into light and airy living space. The main feature is a large full height glazing which allows uninterrupted views into the stylish garden.
Old Barn extension by DHV Architects in Bristol
House conversion and extension in Bishopston by DHV Architects in Bristol
DHV Architect's RIBA competition entry for Langley Wood Visitor Hub
Our vision for this project is to create a memorial path or procession to commemorate those affected by the First World War. This meandering path, leading the visitors from the car park to the building, becomes the defining element of the scheme.
The path is enclosed to the west by a procession of free-standing timber posts (the“forest of memory”) that raise gradually from the ground to form the building’s envelope. The access walk, surrounded by the posts and on the other by the hedgerow represents the trenches built on site for WWI training.
The names of war heroes and donors can be engraved on the “forest of memory” posts; the posts are also used as part of the way-finding strategy, which is fully integrated into the building’s fabric rather than added on.
The building consists of three elements: the “hub”; the service block and a glass-roofed entrance area. The “hub” is a tall, lightweight and airy structure emerging from the“forest of memory” that affords extensive views towards the memorial sites. This bright and inviting multi-purpose space opens into a partly covered terrace facing the rolling landscape.
The service block is a lower, crescent-shaped earth-bag construction that contains the toilets and other ancillary accommodation. Both the “hub” and service block are accessed from a glazed entrance area spanning over the access path.
DHV Architect's RIBA competition entry for Langley Wood Visitor Hub
DHV Architect's RIBA competition entry for Langley Wood Visitor Hub
DHV Architect's RIBA competition entry for Langley Wood Visitor Hub
DHV architects have obtained planning consent for the remodel of a 'standard' 1960 house involving the complete re-design of the front elevation. The building envelope will be thermally upgraded to achieve higher insulating values than a new build; the new facade will feature high-performance triple glazed composite windows and fibre cement slates cladding over 150mm of wood fibre insulation. The side walls will be externally insulated and rendered.
We are very excited to announce that our work has won the Best of Houzz 2016 in theDesign & Customer Servicecategories, as our portfolio includes some of the most popular images and consistent reviews on Houzz in 2015.
Lucy Pedler of The Green Register@greenregister organised a very interesting demonstration today of how to install Diathonite, a thermal insulating cork-based plaster. Sean Denton of Jordaya Contracting and his team applied a liquid cork and lime based plaster at Develeco's latest Eco Refurb project in Bristol: a conversation of a former Methodist Church hall into affordable starter homes. The existing external solid stone walls have a high moisture content and conventional impervious insulation was therefore not suitable. Diathonite has high vapour permeability and excellent acoustic properties. The base coat of Diathonite is sprayed on and then over-plastered with the same mix to achieve a homogenous, self-coloured coating.
