Glass Bridge House

Glass Bridge House is a 260m² dwelling that spans a narrow valley in the Brecon Beacons. The site presented a unique challenge: the only viable building platform straddled a watercourse running between two steep banks. Rather than divert the stream, we chose to bridge it. The house is a single, slender volume of steel and glass, supported at each end by rough-hewn stone abutments that anchor the building to the hillside. The living spaces occupy the bridge itself, with the kitchen and dining room cantilevered over the water. At night, the underside of the house glows softly, reflecting in the stream below. It is a house that belongs to the air as much as the land.