A costal home for a waterman. This wonderful house designed by Hyde+Hyde has been granted planning permission on the shoreline of West Wales. Inspired by stepping stone monoliths, this house is steel framed to allow the light to penetrate the depth of the house and afford the sea views. The external hung cladding provides the privacy.
There is a basement to this building and high water table requiring a reinforced concrete basement and with rock at a shallow depth piers have been used with ground beams between and a suspended ground floor between. The steelwork will spring from slab level splitting trades neatly.
Lateral deflection checks are key on this project. Scale modelling of the full structure was undertaken with 'open structure' wind loading on the cladding to accurately identify high deflection areas and strengthen members where necessary.
To reduce sway deflections and minimise steel section sizes the steel columns required full fixity to the concrete substructure. To accurately determine base plate fixity finite element analysis was undertaken. By doing this holding down bolt arrangement options and strain can be tested. By controlling the strain the lateral frame deflection can be controlled.
The end result is simply amazing.
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