Residential

riverlane petersham

The development at River Lane Petersham consists of three innovative houses and it was the client's requirement that the houses should be engineered to high standard. It was particularly important that the Structural Engineering was integrated with the Architecture, the Building Services Engineering and the Landscape Architecture so to reflect the client's aspirations and concern towards the environment.

Terry Farrell and Partners were invited by Berkeley Homes to
conceptually design three prestige contemporary homes at Courtyards, River Lane, Petersham. Their proposals were later implemented and Battle McCarthy were invited to provide structural and building services engineering services.

The site is very secluded, surrounded by established trees and is accessed from a long private lane. The local planning authority required a modest development, invisible from outside the immediate site.

Terry Farrell’s concept was for three individual family homes grouped on site but with distinct private space. Internally the houses are arranged along a central double height gallery, with a dining room, kitchen, study and bedrooms. Since planning regulations restricted the houses’ height the living room has become a double height garden pavillion.

The 2 storey north walls act as a boundary wall to the adjoining property providing privacy and acting as a passive thermal regulator. The enclosure formed by the elongated building forms a large garden into which the pavillion living room protrudes. The building layout ensures complete privacy with no internal or external spaces being overlooked.