Logie Point House
LOGIE POINT HOUSE
Guz Architects
LANDSCAPE
Nurture Ecology Limited
LOCATION
Jersey
MANUFACTURERS
AutoDesk, Door Entry IP, Lummel GmBH & Co.KG, Solar Strategies, Trimble Navigation
PHOTOGRAPHS
Patrick Bingham-Hall
MAIN CONTRACTOR
Houze Construction Limited
CATEGORY
Houses
COLLABORATORS
Riva Architects
STRUCTURAL ENGINEER
Ross-Gower Associates
QUANTITY SURVEYOR
Tillyard Chartered Quantity Surveyors
MECHANICAL & ELECTRICAL ENGINEER
Henderson Green
CONSTRUCTION
Onhill Design & Construction Company Limited
DESIGN TEAM
Guz Architects, Riva Architects
ARCHITECT IN CHARGE
Guz Wilkinson
ENGINEERING
Onhill Design & Construction Company Limited
MECHANICAL AND ELECTRICAL ENGINEER
Henderson Green
ENGINEERING AND CONSTRUCTION
Onhill Design & Construction Company Limited
Text description provided by architect.
Two houses on a stunning headland site in Jersey UK. Jersey is a small island off the north coast of France.
The site is a beautiful headland covered in native heather and gorse, it being too windy and exposed to allow trees to grow.
Our design philosophy for the 2 houses was to integrate the houses into the existing headland to minimize the impact especially when seen from above.
To achieve this the houses ‘grow’ out of the sloping site with roof gardens on top.
The main living room pavilions then had curved sloping roofs with photovoltaic cells integrated into the roofs.
For the main house the building tied into the sloping ground on both ends to enclose a protected south facing courtyard which contains a natural swimming pool which is filtered by reeds and plants rather than a conventional chlorine system.
The house is clad in a stone or slate which was also from the UK. The stone has an earthy feel and helps tie the buildings into the headland.
The houses were designed to be eco friendly from the start with high levels of insulation, heating using air source heat pumps and photovoltaic cells with Tesla ‘powerwalls’ to provide electrical storage so the house can be off grid.
