Best over 50s housing designs for Global Awards shortlisted
LONDON: The shortlist for the best individual over 50s housing design has been declared.
The fastest growing segment in over 50s housing is the downsizer self designed stand alone purpose build home.
Over 250 designs have been considered by the awards secretariat. One of the finalists in this category is shown above.
The Five Acre Barn is an original building form that is well suited to this new type of brief. The scheme provides new build; ‘bed and breakfast’ accommodation for five visitors (individuals, couples or multi-generational families) who can choose to live and dine together for their stay, or use their room as a base to travel around this scenic area of Suffolk, Aldeburgh being the nearest town to the site. The new building has a stepping, organic form, clad in shingles, that ‘wriggles’ among the trees in a mature garden (the five acres of the title). Each room is expressed in the roof form and each room has its own timber deck projecting out into the landscape. The new building is directly linked to a retained workshop building.
The Global Award winner will be announced in November in London.
