Tree House Concept Boards

For the presentation of our proposal for the Caretaker's House in December 2009. The house is for the caretaker of AA's Hooke Park in Dorset, his wife and three children. The house is based on the notion of continuing the tree trunks that form the surrounding forest to become the structure of the house. These form seemingly arbitrary columns that the four rectangular volumes housing three bedrooms and a shared family bathroom in different levels rest upon. These rooms are arranged around a winding staircase that continues out over the front entrance into a small balcony viewing over the site. Below the private rooms is an open kitchen- dining- and living area, a utility room and a toilet. All the four rooms have skylights from a single-plane cut across the whole house, giving a large central skylight flooding the ground floor space with daylight, and giving a clear view of the stars at night.