‘A Roman Ruin Wrapped Around A Modern Concrete House’ - Step Inside Adam Richards' Nithurst Farm
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 6 ส.ค. 2020
- Last year, architect Adam Richards revealed Nithurst Farm, his self-designed family home in the South Downs National Park. We’re pleased to share a new film exploring the far-reaching ideas and references that informed the convention-defying design of the house, as well as the intimate realities of daily life in the space, one year on.
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What a teaser of such art, left me longing for more..... the quality is insane, detailed length video please!
They were on Grand designs! With a little bit of searching you could probably find the full 45 min episode of the full build.
OMG! Honestly, to me, this is BREATHTAKING! Just what I love, juxtaposition!
The interior of this house is truly exceptional. The choice of materials and decoration is so precise and the result is so powerful that it feels like we're in some sort of Castellucci theater set. The concrete gives monumentality to the whole and in the end, this is so intense I don't think I could live there.
I have a feeling he works the movie Stalker into every casual conversation.
To each his own. Towering concrete interior is creepy. The speech went over my head as well. Divine landscape though, and I like the exterior brick moment. Subbed!
Love that brick facade - and what a great interior of mixed periods!
This is so calming to watch. It'd be a dream to be living in this idyllic place every day!
Sad to not be able to see much of the house, seems a lot of these videos focus on small corners or accessories. I’m just wondering how they managed to hang those pictures on the old tapestry! Love the idea
i think the pictures are suspended from picture wire or picture rods attached to the ceiling so they don't actually touch the tapestry
.. like this > www.picturehangingsystems.com/
Adam Savage uses a system like this in his house
I noticed a change in the photography of interiors some years ago: Corners, glimpses, and details became dominant. I think the motivation was to be atypical. Whereas you or I would BACK UP to encompass a scene, professionals reckoned they should reduce the frame to create composed set pieces or to capture effects which demonstrate their skill. This "insider" method spread and became the norm, unfortunately, even in video.
@@jeffcampbell1555
some sites are better than others.
.. another trend is "a tour" made of panning or zooming shots of different rooms without creating any sense of the links between the rooms, an inhabitant's passage through the program of the house/building. or *no plans*
@@kazoosc I'm also interested in those same aspects, and I always want PLANS. If they aren't around I'll try to deduce a layout from pictures or video, both of which seem bent on giving me nothing. It's nice to know others are also interested in program!
Great home. Beautiful art and furniture. Talented
Interesting concept, unexpectedly blending or synthesis of the ancient and modern.
The house Is the Art in itself. I need more
love the tapestries!
I appreciate your vision, and really like the house. The setting is pretty great too. I believe you achieved what you we're aiming for.
Landscape and setting are everything. Love the exterior of the home very beautiful and fit its surroundings wonderfully. It looks like monestry in the middle of a beautiful setting. I think an interior courtyard or light well would have added something as there was simply not enough light for me inside the home, especially considering the amount of exposed concrete.
Wow, I am stunned..... I wanted MORE.
Amazing house - really interesting! The video is so beautifully made as well
that tapestry-I'm in love
Had I not known from the title, I would have guessed it was a Rafael Moneo project. Nicely done.
Very inspiring video, thank you!
AMAZINGLY BEAUTIFUL 🙌🏿 TRULY BEAUTIFUL
What a beautiful house and it succeeded in its endeavor to capture an emotionally moving space and experience. The location is also dramatic with the rolling greens with familiar elements contrasted with a modern building structure. A house so cinematographic, indeed very Tarkovsky-esque.
😂 This just makes me want to move out already, get a home for myself 😍.
That space is creative heaven for me.
Just love the landscape y the lush forest y the like
The shot at the bottom of the stairs makes it look like Josef Fritzl's cellar.
Beautifully filmed!
This is remarkable!
Loving the Van Morrison Astral Weeks album!
Fantastic building!
So what I'm getting out of this is that it's cool to be rich
Well that is not wrong
Being rich is just like being poor, except every time you'd think "wow that looks cool too bad I can never afford that" you're just like "wow that looks cool" and then you just do it and it is cool and your life is so much better when you can afford to do things like that
@@scroogemcduck1462 thanks Mr. McDuck!
It’s very uncool to be poor, that’s the truth.
Believing and dreaming is really priceless 💕
Wolf's Lair reimagined.I like the outside form much better than the interiors although the symmetry of the layout is visually appealing.
Excellent!
The art is incredible. I could stare at the wall with the tapestries and modern art for days...
I have seen Nithurst Farm in ohter platforms, one of the best retail projects I've seen recently.
I love it though a little playfulness inside with the heavy concrete might lighten the ominous feeling. Heavy concrete ceilings would freak me as I would be paranoid they were going to fall in on me.
simply amazing, like I was in Italy..Tuscany... i am just wondering, how far is for the boys to get to school? or to bigger city?
Epic house!
So good! I wish we could’ve seen more, I’m curious if some spaces higher up provided a more homely feel, it’s Frühpensionierung short these videos are!
How beautiful
Gorgeous house on the outside, but the concrete interior is absolutely sinister and inhospitable. Add a few iron beds and you get the mental institute from the 40's look.
imagine having an enormous beautiful tapestry like that which likely took years for skilled weavers to weave, and putting pictures on top of it, really shows how little appreciation the rich have for labor. Related to that point, I also can't believe how often I see someone who designed their house in interviews like this say that they "built their own house", as if other people didn't actually construct it.
THANK YOU!
There's even four layers of tapestry, with the one at the very back barely showing. What is the point of that? Total disrespect for the craftmanship and labour that's been put into making these pieces of art history. Pisses me off.
@@lsamoa Ah I forgot about this video...looking at it again, I'm trying to understand how the framed art can be mounted on the tapestries without damaging them, drilling holes through them etc....and each tapestry must cost thousands. Most importantly, the pictures just look tacky as hell layered like that (they look like hotel art to me - don't understand why anyone would want them on the wall anyway, even without the tapestries). nothing brilliant about it
Really, really good. It does give that ancient Roman building feel very much. Also because of the almost theatrical setting. Beautiful setting Too. Why did you choose the new bricks, wouldn’t aged material have been an option. Not to fool anyone, that would be cheesy, but just combined with the modern windows etc.
i like your concrete and stone modern home thank you from T&T
Well done videographer!
That shot at 2:03, beautiful!
I have this memory that i heard of this movie from another place before ...
This house appeared in Grand Designs 2019. Look for it on YT "Roman Castle in Sussex" for have longer and more in depth tour
Would love to have seen more of the house. Stunning otherwise.
I'm sorry to say that I agree with "arty-farty" below; close but no cigar. That's simply because the real meat is left out of the pie - A simple floor plan upfront would allow us to read the building internally. It's cleary a fabulous building but I have no sense of how it all fits together, especially the upper floors. Give me floor plans instead of Stalker!
i've decided i am fully obsessed with the modern art in front of the tapestry
The image of the moving staircase at beginning of video comes from the movie "A Matter of Life and Death," for those wondering.
There's a lot of prissy people in the comments sounding off about the inside of the house. There are wonderful softening elements to complement the monumental concrete: that pink-peach curtain in breakfast nook; art on the walls; overstuffed sofas; crimson rugs on the bedroom floors; yellow, bronze, gold accents throughout; and of course those three glorious, overlapping, gold tapestries. The large windows cast natural, changeable light: warm in the living room, ethereal in the nook.
It's maybe not for everyone - stay safe in your beige world - but it's quite livable to me.
Gimme more!
beautiful
Beautiful. From a distance it looks like an italian country house or italian monastery .
Basically a bunker
Looks like the old Churchill cabinet war rooms.
Wow, it's like living in a movie.
deepest wishes.
Does anybody know the brand of the sofas ?
omg who put the audio to this? it is so weird and frustrating how it cuts out, not only that it cuts out but how.
This home has locked the architect into a specific period of his thinking.
He will eventually want to move on from this, to free himself of the constraint.
You can sell an object or a car which you no longer enjoy, and little else changes.
When he tires this house, he will also have to sell its rural setting.
He has built an idea. He has not built something beautiful.
Ideas are better placed in the public domain, where they can be passed around.
Conventional beauty is more enduring in the heart and mind and thus more likely to be kept.
These are my thoughts and fears, expressed as opinions, for simplicity and brevity.
Wonderfully well put! I sense that you've put a lot of thought into this area of life and architecture, and I think you're right! I think that you have to embrace that architecture has to capture and deliver a certain appropriate feeling or mood to the person living around it. Straying too far from the feeling of peace that you want your very home to give you would ultimately, I think, leave you unsatisfied.
Your thoughts are valid and put eloquently. They don't represent, however, a necessity or a law of nature. They are simply one interpretation possibility. Thank you very much for sharing your valuable life-experience.
@@panvityok5288 "A law of nature"? What are you talking about?! The author of that comment has stated that he has expressed HIS OWN opinion. It seems you have not fully read his comment or digested it.
I couldn't agree more with you. But I am guessing that this is a matter of one's personality traits more than anything else. One could possibly feel trapped by creating a permanent structure that is essentially just an exercise in his ever evolving style. But at the same time it could be this time capsule of that point in time when he was at that place that he is not anymore. The way you are phrasing it says a lot about you and that is where I find myself standing too but this is mostly a matter of character. You wouldn't do it whereas he did. That also says a lot.
So true
Massimo Bottura lives in my dream home.
Wow for a house set in a wonderful setting from the inside you see very little...for such a large house, the dining table is in a tiny box space ..kitchen is disconnected cold, this house has no heart and soul..
the table we get to see is only the little breakfast table there is another one
nice concrete house
After all that,....not a single thank you to Kahn.
You owe him a lot.....
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I really like the exterior, but the interview seemed a bit eerie. Just me?
Yes
A little tomb-like. I did like it though, it felt so solid. I live in a wood frame house, I long for solid, dense and soundproof walls of concrete!
Was this featured on Grand Designs?
The house is like a concept, an invisible modern soul covered by ruinish Roman appearance. Perhaps Adam Richards himself.
This felt like being inside an abandoned house in Chernobyl. For a house of magnitude size, it lacks warmth.
Where is the Roman Ruin?
👍👍👍
Feels very sad
Looks cold, like a crematorium.
Grand Designs featured this house
I like concrete but then I was surprised to see kids in this concrete house!
If someone tells me that he is Massimo Bottura's twin and I would totally buy it
I know people who've visited this house say it is wonderful but I've yet to see photos or a film that show me for example that the main kitchen dining space is anything but overpoweringly depressing. The family in the film sit surrounded by 4 tall concrete towers when there is beautiful countryside all around. It would seem that the outside is not visible from the central island. I could continue, and have at length to the chairman of the RIBA House of the Year competition to say that it was regrettable that this house should be cited as an example of good residential architecture. It looks ugly from the outside and unpleasant to be in.
I should have read Soundsculptures below before starting this - too much head not enough heart indeed
Not long enough! This is such rich material but then it just ends. Very disappointed.
The library needs another 50 years of fine collecting to even bear a resemblance to mine.
Winderful concepts
Time Team mixed with Stalker.
moms kick at 3:39
Да, Тарковский..Дизайн Зоны
Great idea. Bad execution?
Where do architects learn to speak like this? Amazing house though
hit the mute, and watch
Beautiful on the outside, let down by the innards! That is one oppressive interior, and I'm a fan of concrete. What a shame. Too much head, not enough heart.
Kings new clothes, in this case "clothed in waffling" (a euphemism for BS) that when analysed is mostly irrelevant to the ACTUAL experience of the architecture. But hey, its the architects own house and if he likes it, that's great. Nevertheless great to see and get a better idea of the house. So many thanks for excellent films where getting to the point (in this case BS about a pretty ugly building) is well worth having to reinforce ones beliefs and understanding of ones own highly subjective opinions on what meets Vitruvious's definitions of good architecture, namely "firmitas (strength), utilitas (functionality), and venustas (beauty)". So a winner on the first, iff-y on the second, and a big fail on the last for me.
That's interesting, I really didn't think much of the exterior but I liked the interior a lot!
@@giotto4321 Ha! Well, horses for courses, as ever. 😁
@@SOUNDsculptures I should however qualify my last comment: I'm not sure that'd I'd be happy living in such a space! 😉 Given the big windows and large floor to ceiling heights, it still seemed very dark.
@@fumusfumus Psst, there's no 'o' in Vitruvius.
Very visually Depressing in my perception.
Exactly. Like in Tarkovsky's film.
Houses are built to last. However, in this economy, if it doesn’t make a profit, why bother.
I like my house that can last for generations.
I have to say there are something quirky about this architect, the house he designs, the the life unfolding in the house. Mother playing soccer with the boys while dad talks about architecture upstairs... a man who takes inspiration of his own home from Roman ruins... I mean, the Roman Empire met its destruction at the end, no? And who would build his home inspired by a gloomy dark 70s’ Russian Sci-fi? Not me...
Hitters bunker above ground.
Why would you take the time too make make a video about this beautiful and unique house and show so little of it?
looks beautiful! but not comfy for living in
What a cold place - it looks like a high-end prison cell.
Yes precisely
Nothing reveals the shittiness of modern art like placing some crude monochromatic triangles in front of a beautiful tapestry
Sure, if you call that tattered rag 'a beautiful tapestry'. But to each his own I guess.
@@enkryptron yes a tapestry is a tattered rag, the pieta is an old rock, Birth of Venus is just some old eggs on a canvas....but those bland rectangles?.....INSPIRED!!!!
@@displaychicken Heh, Plebe! Don't get triggered there snowflake.
@@enkryptron who’s triggered? You’re the one using ad hominem attacks whilst passionately defending your triangles and squares. I’m sorry to hear about your bad taste but it’s no reason to be rude.
@@displaychicken Let me guess, who took the trouble to reply to an obvious troll but a pwecious wittle snowflake? Hahaha.
No one should ever be homeless if you can make a concrete building like this. Concrete is just not a special material. This home is impeccable.
Building these huge concrete houses is shamefully bad for the environment.
@@ciganyweaverandherperiwink6293 Nope. Just over developing, tearing down forest and paving.
@@aubreyjames8795 Concrete manufacturing is good for the environment?!
@@aubreyjames8795 There's no need to have a rude tone with strangers online, it's not appropriate-- picture us meeting at a function and chatting at dinner and I'm certain you wouldn't spit, 'don't sound so desperate for attention' when I agreed with another person who was sitting opposite us talking. What you MIGHT think of saying is 'What do you do for a living, if you don't mind me asking?' So we'll agree to disagree on this issue. Goodbye.
@@ciganyweaverandherperiwink6293 What a nut. 20 hours later and you're still *desperate for attention.*
This isn't a disagreement; it was you harassing someone who wanted nothing to do with you. It's inappropriate that you attempted to make an innocent comment into an argument. Run along crazy.
you cant see almost nothing on that video!! looks like depressing towers of concrete!
The word "playroom" doesn't belong here. Love how the family is pretending to enjoy eating dinner in a dungeon.
He and exurb1a sounds exactly alike
The only lovely element was the tapestry wall. Otherwise, they seemed to be living in an abandoned rail station in far eastern China. So, I guess I'm a bitch, too.
Self awareness is always helpful.
Ha! Agreed.
"Concrete is a modern material." Romans were using it and even invented a self-healing nautical concrete we only just figured out how to mimic.
The statement continues "... in terms of reinforced concrete". And that addition brings us to the era of industrial revolution. But nevertheless is starts to be a bit weird to even call reinforced concrete "modern" these days and I should say the interior of this house is "retro" rather than modern. There is a lot of resemblance with the 1960-1990 (soviet) architecture to be seen.
@@tuplajii You are right to finish the statement. It might be interesting to you to know reinforced concrete has been around for a while, too. Notably, in Tel Ashkelon, is a massive crusader structure that used granite columns for reinforcement. I assume he meant steel. I agree that this house isn't very modern unless we are talking early 1900's "Modernist."
GP ...and he did fairly modern so that’s a mis quote ... he goes on to reference it as ancient & mid evil...not to mention Modern is the reference to the style Modern. There’s a difference between Modern & modern.
@@tuplajii
Soviet housings are built to last. American housing often fail because they are trying to make profit out of it.