The Gentleman Magazine Issue 20 | April 2020 | Page 90

ACORN LAUNCHES GREEN ROOFED ‘ECO-CHIC’
HOMES AT CUBIS BRUTON IN SOMERSET DESIGNED
TO MERGE INDOOR & OUTDOOR LIVING
Acorn Property Group has launched Cubis Bruton in Somerset,
which provides 56 contemporary designed three and four
bedroom houses bristling with ‘eco-chic’ features including
green roofs, timber cladding and superior insulation; with
the flexible living space, bi-folding glass doors and terracing
offering distinctive homes that skillfully merge the boundaries
between indoor and outdoor living.
Cubis Bruton is located off Cuckoo Hill on the northern
side of the sought-after medieval town of Bruton, listed in
the Domesday Book of 1086, and known for its modern art
galleries such as Hauser and Wirth; independent schools,
pretty high street and stone houses. The countryside version
of London’s Notting Hill, Bruton is a highly desirable town,
recently described as a magnet for lovers of art, food and
fashion and an area fertile with creativity. As a result of its
sophisticated lifestyle offering and good transport links Bruton
attracts buyers from both the local region and locations
including Bristol, Bath and London.
Providing iconic architecture ensuring nature and design
in harmony, Cubis Bruton was devised by highly regarded
land artist Mark Merer, whose works combine architecture,
landscape and sculpture to create environmentally sensitive
living spaces. Merer’s Landhouse studio collaborated with
multi-award winning Somerset artist Lucy Glendinning,
whose sculptures and paintings look at the human form and
nature. The result is stunning contemporary homes whose
highly artistic design and interiors will appeal to both local
buyers and commuters from cities further afield.
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Mark Merer, Director of Landhouse who led the design concept
for Cubis Bruton says: “My wife Lucy Glendinning and myself
have previously lived in Bruton, and our home was an old grain
mill which we converted into a modernist living space, so we
know the town and have personal expertise in undertaking
development there. To design Cubis Bruton we worked closely
with The Bruton Trust, in charge of development in the town,
and the Cuckoo Hill site provided the opportunity to create a
high quality residential scheme which would also serve as a
new entrance to the town. We also collaborated with Acorn
who are passionate about design-led housing.”
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Mark Merer continues: “To devise the scheme we visited and
photographed the site and liaised with the local community
about the type of housing they wanted. The result is homes truly
integrated with the local landscape, created from sustainable
materials, whose contemporary design answers the call from
local people to provide homes with an exciting fresh look
whose intelligent design helps to bring the environment alive.”
Benefitting the local community by revitalising a redundant
site and delivering much needed local housing, Cubis Bruton
is built on the site of a large Victorian house and redundant
horticultural centre, now replaced by a high quality residential
community of three and four bedroom houses, up to 2,239
sqft in size; each with different layouts. The housing scheme is
designed around courtyards, central spaces and private gardens,
with bi-folding glass doors and terracing ensuring that the
built form extends into the surrounding landscape.
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