From derelict water tank to desirable family home
If people can make homes out of concrete water tanks I wonder if there are any takers for their silage equivalent!
This thirst quenching tale of an innovative alternative to traditional exceptions policy tells us:
When the artist Dinos Chapman and his wife, the designer Tiphaine de Lussy, first heard about a disused concrete reservoir in the Kent countryside they knew that they had found the perfect opportunity to create a new family home for themselves.
Chapman and de Lussy had been looking for a place to build a country house for some time and were inspired by the great Californian Case Study houses – the result of a programme of experimental residential architecture in the 1950s and 60s that involved names such as Eero Saarinen and Richard Neutra. They had talked through their plans with the architectural designer Kevin Brennan of Brinkworth, who had worked on their London home, and then got a call from him while they were away on holiday telling them about the reservoir, a concrete 500,000-gallon tank that came with planning permission to convert it into a house.