Project cost: £22.0 million
Architect: Giles Quarme Associates.
Timber Roof Construction - Benchmark Woodworking Ltd (Gordon Cowley)
Photographs: Paul Smoothy, Giles Quarme Associates / Fluid Structures

Huttons Farm is a traditional Chiltern’s Farm complex consisting of a number of early Nineteenth Century timber barns surrounding a brick and flint farmhouse. It is located in an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. The development includes an underground art gallery and large glass and timber framed gallery space.

The dome roof of this private residential development was an important architectural feature of the scheme. Fluid was engaged to design both the timber structure and the laminated glazing which is held on the timber frame on stainless steel fixings.

The dome is supported on laminated cigar shaped oak columns and the dome marks out the entrance and circulation routes for the building complex.