Ahead of the Curve!

This is for sure a curve that doesn’t need any flattening! From our perspective, this must certainly be one of the most architecturally interesting houses built in the UK during the COVID 19 Pandemic. Designed exclusively by Joanna Hayes, our company director. It’s an architectural masterpiece. We can happily declare that; we’ve got it covered. Curves are here to stay.

Yesterday, Philip Kay and I popped over to see how our client was getting on with her 5 bedroomed eco-home which has been under construction for about 11 months. Nearing completion now, the staircase and the kitchen are both going in, along with the plumbing and electrical system.

Usually, I am someone who talks a lot and is overly-passionate about every single one of our Roundhouses. This, however? This building rendered me literally speechless for a good five minutes. Walking around, gazing at the sweeping cuves which flow toward and away from eachother in a never-ending dance of movement. The light-filled rooms, contracting and expanding curves in the hallways and fibbonaci style curved stairwell seamlessley meld together. The whole house is full of vibrancy and movement and the tactile nature of it all is utterly compelling. One could spend all day just looking at the walls.

There is still some way to go until the final fix and the paint finishes perfected, the guttering and external detailing complete and the internals ready for the furniture to arrive. But ,it’s a good glimpse of how this showstopping Rotunda-home is going to look…

The photographs are hopefully enough to illustrate how this building is now coming to life, but, really, to experience it is another level entirely.

Clambering up to the upper level bedroom on a tall ladder was a humbling and surreal experience. It’s a wide spiral, ascending to a cirle; like climbing up a pristine white nautilus shell.

This is the first time we’ve constructed a dual-level Rotunda Roundhouse and, for me, the first time I’ve stepped into a round above a round. The feeling of the space is simply magnificent.

We are tremendously excited to unveil the building when it’s fully complete. For us, the idea of living in anything other than a flowing, organic, tactile and warm environment which is nurturing and exciting is paramount to human wellbeing and I for one, am on the waiting list for the next one !

Take care everyone, stay safe

Rotunda x