Proposed Golf & Country Club

The current sketch scheme for the proposed country club works on predominantly 2 storeys, sitting on a footprint of approximately 3,000m2, with a substantial part of the lower ground floor lost within the terrain. The subterranean element houses extensive plant requirements together with back of house servicing including ‘goods in’ and refuse collection, all completely invisible from within the wider landscape. Of the visible element of the lower ground floor, this serves largely as the golf members entrance, access to the 1st Tee and return from the 18th green.

The upper ground floor provides the main entrance for all other guests leading directly to restaurant and gym facilities that shares changing rooms with the internal and external pools. Given the nature of these facilities, extensive external terraces are provided to allow the restaurants and pools to have a very ‘inside / outside’ feel.

The roofscape is heavily planted, taking design cues from the completed spa building and, very much like the spa, includes a setback, transparent rooftop bar and flexible space to work in tandem with the landscaped roof terrace. Orientation and location of the internal uses take maximum advantage of the views and sun path, whilst being sensitively screened by an existing mature tree line.

With reference to proposed materials, the proposed building is grounded with ashlar stone giving a solid base feel, changing to a much more light weight upper floor using bronze anodised cladding and extensive amounts of glazing.