Grand Designs Curved Roof House

Grand design s presenter kevin mccloud is incredibly sceptical about one couple from devon s project of building a home and winery with a unique roof shape in this week s channel 4 show.

Grand designs curved roof house.

Here we look at some of our favourite roof designs from iconic channel 4 television show grand designs. The way the episodes have been released on dvd differs slightly to the order they were aired on tv. Kevin mccabde s massively ambitious plans to build the largest cob house on the planet saw the building unfinished and uninhabitable at the end of the 2013 episode of grand designs uk. The dome shaped roof is an example of a framework based on a medieval design known as timbrel vaulting.

Edward short who appeared on grand designs saddest ever episode after his dream to build a luxury lighthouse in north devon left him in 4 million worth of debt with an unfinished house and a. A contemporary circular house located in england s northamptonshire and that was featured on the british tv series grand designs is for sale for offers over 900 000 us 1 1 million. The curved design offers. Designs richard and sophie hawkes appeared on grand designs during 2009 realising their dream to build their iconic eco house in the kentish countryside.

And has become known as the grand designs container house. Host of the show kevin mccloud was less than optimistic about the curved plough shaped roof and the couple did find it was more complex to achieve than they initially anticipated. On the show richard built his highly acclaimed eco arch passivhaus proving that clever architecture need not be expensive and has since used his family home to test out the latest eco.