The expansion intervention of a seventeenth-century farmhouse, Hawthbush, by Mole Architects in East Sussex, in the south of the United Kingdom, is the result of a clear request from the client: to create a 'radical' ultra-modern extension but to avoid a pastiche of the old.
Indeed a glazed connecting volume has been incorporated to the ancient existing building with new spaces, including a large kitchen-dining room, which allows a continuous dialogue with the external environment, in harmony with the concept of 'good flow'.
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he compositional layout of Hawthbush has been designed with the aim of tracing the original layout of the old English farmhouses usually characterised by large courtyards, an “L-Shaped” plan and by dispersed clusters.
The choice of materials has been defined in terms of a sustainable approach that involved the use of natural materials like wood, brick and lead.
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