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Category Archives: Norfolk DNA
Contemporary Farmsteads #3
If the contemporary ‘farmstead’ described in the last ‘Farmstead’ post was a bit too literal, I thought this next one might be the antidote: a project by MacCreanor Lavington published nearly ten years ago which must have made quite an … Continue reading
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Tagged dutch, farmstead, modernism, orientation, roofs
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Contemporary ‘Farmsteads’ #2
Before I signed off at the end of the year I was talking about contemporary ‘farmsteads’ – one of my four rural archetypes. I had it in mind to talk about how a dense grouping of dwellings laid out around … Continue reading
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Tagged design quality, farmstead, Norfolk, pastiche, planning, roofs, rural archetypes, vernacular
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Looking forward to 2011
After a bit of a break over Christmas, I’m going to carry on with my rambling treatise on rural design, but before I do, it’s worth mentioning a couple of more generally design-related events to look forward to in 2011.
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Tagged design/architecture, FANN-XI, FANN09, local distinctiveness, Norfolk, pecha kucha
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Contemporary ‘Farmsteads’?
If Crown Paddock serves as a rather literal exemplar of the ‘farmstead’ (one of my four rural archetypes), how about this from Dutch architects Atelier Pro, in a proposal for new development around Norwich Research Park led by Norwich-based development … Continue reading
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Tagged design/architecture, farmstead, Norfolk, rural archetypes, settlement pattern
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Roofs Across Fields #4 – A Modern ‘Take’
As I said before (here), my opinion that the roof is more important than the wall in the rural landscape of Norfolk was based in no small part on hours spent gazing out of train windows on the Norwich to … Continue reading
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Tagged design/architecture, farmstead, modernism, Norfolk, pan-tiles, roofs, rural archetypes
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A Rural Hero Remembered
Yesterday a group of school children from Robert Kett Middle School laid a small posy of flowers underneath a plaque in Wymondham commemorating the 461st anniversary of the execution of local hero Robert Kett, in a ceremony dating as far … Continue reading
Roofs Across Fields
Hitherto I’ve described four rural archetypes that I identified when I showed some clients around Norfolk this summer: the nucleated and non-nucleated village, the wide-fronted house and the farmstead. I haven’t listed ‘roofs across fields’ as an archetype, but it … Continue reading
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Tagged design/architecture, Frettenham, Horsham St Faith, Norfolk, roofs, rural archetypes
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Norfolk DNA #4 – The Farmstead
The last of the four ‘rural archetypes’ I identified for my recent guided-tour of Norfolk was the farmstead – or perhaps, more generally, a relatively dense rectilinear grouping of buildings; the wider definition allows this archetype to be represented also by … Continue reading
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Tagged design/architecture, farmstead, Frettenham, history, Norfolk, rural archetypes, vernacular
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Norfolk’s DNA #3 – The Wide-Fronted House
The Stable Acre house also put me in mind of my third ‘rural archetype’ (see previous post) – the wide-fronted house. Stable Yard isn’t really an exemplar of the type, but it does display two of its main characteristics – it … Continue reading
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Tagged design/architecture, history, Norfolk, rural archetypes, vernacular, wide-fronted house
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Norfolk’s DNA #2 – The Non-Nucleated Village
The second recognizable type of village one might call non-nucleated, as they have a much less well-defined centre. These villages may have only been tiny hamlets in mediaeval times, but many may have come into existence much later, perhaps associated … Continue reading
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Tagged design/architecture, Frettenham, history, non-nucleated, Norfolk, rural archetypes, settlement pattern, village
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