Single House
A large detached home with a multi-hipped roof and a central tower, framed in light gauge steel and shipped to an island site as a labelled kit of parts.
Project Details
A two-storey private residence with a complex hipped-roof plan and a central tower element, engineered in light gauge steel — wall panels, floor cassettes and roof trusses modelled, fabricated and delivered by articulated lorry as one package.
Key Highlights
- Complex hipped and intersecting roof geometry resolved fully in the 3D model
- Central tower framed as part of the same panel system, not a separate structure
- Every panel and truss labelled to its position on the plan
- Complete frame delivered by lorry, ready to stand on the prepared base
- Island logistics simplified — one coordinated delivery instead of many trades
A bespoke house with a plan this articulated — wings at different heights, hipped roofs meeting at several ridges, a tower rising through the middle — is exactly the kind of geometry that slows a traditional build down. Every intersection needs setting out on site, and every roof plane needs a carpenter to work it out.
In light gauge steel that work happens once, in the model. Wall panels, floor cassettes and the roof trusses for each hip and valley were engineered together, with the tower framed as part of the same system. The plans, elevations and roof layouts shown here were all cut from that single geometry.
For an island site, the delivery matters as much as the design. The whole frame left the factory as a labelled kit on articulated lorries, so what arrives is a known set of parts that stands in sequence rather than a stream of materials and trades to coordinate over the water.
System Material Specifications
| Structural System | Load-bearing light gauge steel wall panels with floor cassettes and trussed roof |
| Storeys | Two storeys with central tower element |
| Roof | Multi-hipped cold-formed steel trusses with valley and ridge framing |
| Delivery | Complete frame by articulated lorry, labelled per position |
| Deliverables | Floor plans, roof layouts, elevations and 3D structural model |
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