 Yiangou Architects LLP wins RIBA Award Posted by Yiangou Architects LLP on 1st June 2010.
A contemporary pool building designed by established architectural practice Yiangou Architects LLP is one of three Oxfordshire winners of a RIBA Award in the South Region. A total of 102 awards have been presented for projects across the UK and Europe ranging from public schools and monuments to museums and private houses. The pool house, part of a refurbishment of a Grade II listed house in Oxfordshire, incorporates glass, steel and stone to create a structure that floats in the walled garden of the property. RIBA judges described the winning project as a “beautiful floating building that almost disappears” and went on to say that the pool building “has a wonderful, ephemeral quality that is rare in architecture." Yiangou Architects LLP will now compete with the other winning buildings for various categories in the Stirling Prize, due to be announced later in the year.
The client’s brief was to rationalise the building’s plan, restore the building to it’s former glory and reinstate its traditional features, whilst also constructing a new, unashamedly modern pool/leisure building within the grounds of this listed building. This desire for contemporary design in such close proximity to a historic building did create a number of planning issues and constraints but ultimately the local conservation officers actively supported the scheme.
Although the main reception rooms were retained, the plan to the existing building was considerably altered to rationalise and simplify flow and functionality. The alterations also included constructing a new traditionally detailed garden room and creating an American walnut-panelled, double-height library. Traditional methods and materials, such as lathe and plaster and lime mortars, were used throughout. The garden itself was restored around the building, with original fruit trees retained and made the centre-piece of the southern section of the garden. The north has been designed as a traditional kitchen garden with 2 glasshouses at the end where orchids are to be grown. From its base in the historic town of Cirencester, Yiangou Architects specialise in high quality residential construction using both traditional and contemporary materials. The Practice’s team of eight qualified architects are equally at home working with Grade 1 Listed or contemporary buildings, supported by a well-qualified and experienced team of technicians and technical co-ordinators. In recent years the Practice has expanded and projects now extend nationwide.
Yiangou Architects are a practice based in Cirencester who work on projects nationwide. They are interested in high quality design whether in a traditional or contemporary manner. Also specialising in Listed Buildings and Conservation work.
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