RIBA award house built in marsh

[SusanDoris]

A friend was telling me about a TV programme showing a house built in a marsh. It has, apparently, pink legs and this made it easy to google! We were talking about where their water came from and where waste water and sewage went. I clicked on several links but they were all photos. Can anyone help with finding a text description of the details, please?

[Harrowby Hall]

Is this it?

https://www.architecture.com/awards-and-competitions-landing-page/awards/riba-regional-awards/riba-east-award-winners/2017/redshank

Try looking through the archive for Channel 4's Grand Designs.    That's where I found it. I recall seeing the programme concerned but I cannot recall any discussion about waste etc.

[Nearly Sane]

According to this, the supplies are there but concealed.

https://www.homesandproperty.co.uk/home-garden/interiors/design-news/house-of-the-year-contender-redshank-hovers-over-essex-marshland-a114951.html#gallery

[Rhiannon]

The Essex marshes are in many places genuinely wild. Stunning house.

[SusanDoris]

Many thanks for the replies. I will go to links in a minute and post again.

Just got back in from walking. Gorgeous day of course,, but the very low sun is tricky!

[Walter]

The Essex marshes are in many places genuinely wild. Stunning house.

stunning in its ridiculousness . The award was from the Kings New Clothes Society btw 

[Rhiannon]

stunning in its ridiculousness . The award was from the Kings New Clothes Society btw 

Ah, never mind. Is Poundbury more you?

[floo]

I would be seriously depressed living anywhere like that, YUCK!

[Walter]

Ah, never mind. Is Poundbury more you?

actually I don't live in a house at all but Poundbury looks rather nicer than the council estate I grew up in .

However as long as I've got you to talk to Rhi, I don't care where I live 

[Enki]

Is this it?

https://www.architecture.com/awards-and-competitions-landing-page/awards/riba-regional-awards/riba-east-award-winners/2017/redshank

Try looking through the archive for Channel 4's Grand Designs.    That's where I found it. I recall seeing the programme concerned but I cannot recall any discussion about waste etc.

Perhaps the judges got bogged down in making a decision on this.

It looks to me like any one of a number of bird watching hides I've visited.(e.g. the Saltholme RSPB birdwatching hide in the North East of England).

[Walter]

Perhaps the judges got bogged down in making a decision on this.

It looks to me like any one of a number of bird watching hides I've visited.(e.g. the Saltholme RSPB birdwatching hide in the North East of England).

spot on enki 

[SusanDoris]

Is this it?

https://www.architecture.com/awards-and-competitions-landing-page/awards/riba-regional-awards/riba-east-award-winners/2017/redshank

Try looking through the archive for Channel 4's Grand Designs.    That's where I found it. I recall seeing the programme concerned but I cannot recall any discussion about waste etc.

Thank you  for your help. The services are all concealed it says. It doesn't  seem to say how far the various pipes have to go to to connect with the mains, but I expect that   would havbe been well taken care of, as it must have cost so much anyway!
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[SusanDoris]

According to this, the supplies are there but concealed.

https://www.homesandproperty.co.uk/home-garden/interiors/design-news/house-of-the-year-contender-redshank-hovers-over-essex-marshland-a114951.html#gallery

thank you for the link.  I see it says it is within walking distance of the owners' home .. I think they'd need a boat too though!

[Rhiannon]

Perhaps the judges got bogged down in making a decision on this.

It looks to me like any one of a number of bird watching hides I've visited.(e.g. the Saltholme RSPB birdwatching hide in the North East of England).

I think in a way it is meant to. But it also functions as a house so it has all services connected. And the materials used in its construction are designed to weather and fade into the landscape. I love it. I would love to stay there and watch the sun rise and set.

[Rhiannon]

Love this...

https://www.architecture.com/awards-and-competitions-landing-page/awards/riba-regional-awards/riba-south-west-award-winners/2017/the-quest

and this

https://www.architecture.com/awards-and-competitions-landing-page/awards/riba-regional-awards/riba-south-award-winners/2017/oxfordshire-residence

[Enki]

I think in a way it is meant to. But it also functions as a house so it has all services connected. And the materials used in its construction are designed to weather and fade into the landscape. I love it. I would love to stay there and watch the sun rise and set.

Yes, I agree. The Saltholme complex has a cafe, heated hide, ringing area and lecture area. It is built jutting out into a reedbed complex. This seems to be the way things are going. The new visitor's centre at Spurn(which is being built at the moment) is similar.

[wigginhall]

A bit like Welney as well, which has a heated hide which is massive, and more like a living room.   The RIBA house would give me nightmares.    Also the observatory at WWT in London, which is a big heated hide with massive windows, spectacular, and you can actually get married there.   

[jeremyp]

thank you for the link.  I see it says it is within walking distance of the owners' home .. I think they'd need a boat too though!

From NS's link, it looks like it really isn't very far from the nearest conventional house (i.e. just a few metres). So you'd just extend the utilities a bit and run them up the inside of the legs.

[SusanDoris]

From NS's link, it looks like it really isn't very far from the nearest conventional house (i.e. just a few metres). So you'd just extend the utilities a bit and run them up the inside of the legs.

Ah, right. It looks quite isolated - but that is probably the way it is photographed,  and I did not try to enlarge the picture or peer at it more closely!

[jeremyp]

Ah, right. It looks quite isolated - but that is probably the way it is photographed,  and I did not try to enlarge the picture or peer at it more closely!

It is the way it os photographed. The first photo in the slideshow shows that it is maybe 10 metres from a line of telegraph poles on the right with some houses behind them.

[Robbie]

Whilst it might be a beautiful area, who would want to stay there more than one night? One can birdwatch and holiday without going to such extremes.

Novel though.

[Rhiannon]

Whilst it might be a beautiful area, who would want to stay there more than one night? One can birdwatch and holiday without going to such extremes.

Novel though.

It’s not for birdwatching.

If I lived there the only thing I’d miss would be a garden, and that could probably be got round.

[Robbie]

I realise the place isn't primarily for birdwatching but imagine one would see plenty of birds in that area, which looks lovely.

Can't see a bathroom or even a toilet and that would bother me but I suppose it isn't a house for living in.  Yet you'd still need a bathroom for a one night stay, surely?

[floo]

Whilst it might be a beautiful area, who would want to stay there more than one night? One can birdwatch and holiday without going to such extremes.

Novel though.

The beauty of such an area escapes me, I think marshes are very depressing, but each to their own.

[Robbie]

The skyline in such places is very beautiful, floo, quite amazing in fact, is often photographed and painted - which I would like to do.  The birdlife is wonderful too.  However, each to their own.  I'd visit but not stay, I think, wouldn't feel safe.

Whilst the house might be very clever in some ways it looks to me just like a holiday chalet on stilts except holiday chalets have shower and toilet!  If the 'facilites' are hidden, I wonder where.