Floor-to-ceiling windows are trendy nowadays. House of a photographer, the dwelling below was realised by Hyde Architects, and it features airy interiors designed according to a minimalist, stylish aesthetic. Located on an isolated site, near the Brecon National Park, in United Kingdom, the dwelling takes advantages of the dramatic views outside through floor-to-ceiling windows. The impressive site required an architectural intervention of elegant simplicity, the team explained: “With a modest budget and to counter the construction complexities associated with touching the quarry walls, we developed an object building suspended within the basin – collecting light and focusing on distant views like a camera Obscura.”
Weathering steel offers a stable rust-like appearance to the building. The choice of materials helped to reinforce the authentic nature of the development, ensuring that the architecture has an intelligent narrative based on both its aesthetic appearance and its reference to place.
A bridge made of steel connects the house with the hill in the neighbourhood.
Simple lines govern the architecture of the house, while floor-to-ceiling windows erase the borders between spaces.
A comfy armchair in the balcony. As you can easily notice, the parapet is missing…
Upstairs, an entire wall was dedicated to knowledge – the editions were stored in a 6-level bookcase.
A perspective that shows how minimal the architectural intervention aimed to be in this isolated site.