Grand Designs & RIBA Award-Winning Retrofit: Ravine House

Norrsken collaborated with Howard Evans, of Chiles Evans + Care Architects and Terry Huggett Developments to bring to life an iconic mid-century, multi-award-winning retrofit project in the Midlands. Since featured on Grand Designs, the team remodeled the home's performance to EnerPHit standard performance while retaining the original beauty of the house using Norrsken triple-glazed windows, entrance and sliding doors.

Awards:

• Winner of RIBA East Midlands 2022 - Regional Award
• Winner of RIBA East Midlands 2022 - Sustainability Award
• Winner of RIBA East Midlands 2022 - Project Architect of the Year Award
• Longlisted for RIBA / Grand Designs House of the Year 2022
• Shortlisted for the Stephen Lawrence Prize 2022

The Brief

The project sought to radically alter the fabric of the home but leave it looking as if nothing had happened. The resulting building is at once a detailed piece of conservation and radical refurbishment. The extension is sympathetic in material and geometry and yet makes a distinctive new addition that feels at one with the original house.

In contrast, the new extension is an unapologetically contemporary addition that serves to open up the living spaces to the mature grounds, creating the clear connections between house and landscape that were previously lacking.

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Norrsken discusses the project's challenges, successes, and the mission of sustainable building for the future with Howard, director of CE+CA Architects and the vision behind Ravine House.

"You must have confidence that the contractors and subcontractors onsite will work to the same standards you expect of your own work... Norrsken's timber alu-clad hybrids are some of the best on the market, and we knew that the Norrsken team's work would be of a very high standard end-to-end."

-Howard, Director @ CE+CA Studio, Project Lead