Peckham House with Monty Ravenscroft & Channel 4 Grand Designs
Peckham House on Channel 4 Grand Designs with Kevin McCloud, experimental house project built by Monty Ravenscroft with glass sliding roof
Grand Designs. Presenter Kevin McCloud joined maverick actor-and-inventor owner Monty Ravenscroft as he transformed a sliver of disused land into a family home in 2005. Engineering whiz Monty designs and builds an extraordinary experimental house.
Despite not possessing any formal engineering qualifications, Monty designed a huge, automated, sliding glass roof for their Peckham pad which Kevin McCloud called an 'engineering success'.
The small-but-perfectly-formed property, which was built on an "unusable" brownfield slither of land with a tight budget, features ingenious space-saving ideas complete with sliding glass roof lights, mezzanine bedroom pods and a bathtub hidden under a bed.
Find Monty at around 3'30" minutes into the episode, Hidealoo at 7'20":
View 25 years EpisodeMonty was looking for a way to create a discreet toilet solution for the bedridden state of his father's final years. Hidealoo was developed for his own use. Fold away the toilet into a cabinet or cavity space creating flexible and multi-functional spaces in small bathrooms, wet rooms, cloakrooms and utility rooms.
For 25 years meia have been designing, making and installing bespoke moving elements in architecture. Our range of unique products includes roofs, floors, windows, walls, winter gardens and access systems.
Visit meiaAt a recent Grand Designs Live show appearance in the Birmingham NEC we heard rumours that some councils may be prepared to release micro-sites for self builders to use to make their homes. As we understand it these sites are too small for normal developers so for perfectly into the range of most self builders.
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Given all the battles we had to get our own house made, it would be great if we could use it as why we need to change the system.
Register InterestAs per Grand Designs, the opening roof, the retracting loo and sliding bed-bath typify this extraordinary response to constraints of a tight budget on a brownfield site. This is a house built with the help of many friends and a few professionals. It was built on a piece of brownbelt in a place that most thought couldn’t be lived on at all, let alone in some style.
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Introduced by Kevin McCloud
As seen on Channel 4's Grand Designs, the opening glass roof and sliding bed bath typify this unique and extraordinary response to the constraints and opportunities of a tight budget on an ‘unusable’ brownfield site...
"...It's full of, it's built of, exciting original ideas. This could have been, you know, one big failed experiment but thanks to the genius of Dr Monty it's not only an engineering success, it's a beautiful house..."
Kevin McCloud
"The ultimate in moving architecture from massive glass, blade sharp stainless frames and sliding roof, door or wall; horizontally, vertically or simply rotate. Effortless elegance at your finger-tips....".
Sliding-RoofsOpen City House London 2024 at Peckham House. Photo Gallery: extraordinary sliding glass roof with Monty Ravenscroft and his NEW space saving Hidealoo system by design director Monty Ravenscroft.
Open City House London 2024Marking the 20th anniversary of Grand Designs, architect Kevin McCloud, will take a look at his favourite top 5 builds over the 20 years of filming Grand Designs. The one-off show, catchily called "Kevin's Grandest Design", 28th August 2019.
Grand Designs 20 yearsWith more than 100 projects to choose from, Grand Design's Kevin McCloud had a tough job to whittle the TV Houses down to the ones that have really stuck in his memory. There have been some real gems throughout the time that the show has been on air.
Peckham House was chosen as Kevin McCloud's Grand Designs fourth best house of the entire history of the series.
Architect Zac Monro extols the virtues of blurring the boundaries between house & garden, and of open-plan living, all overseen by meia design director Monty Ravenscroft.
Inside Out HomesFor 25 years meia have been designing, making and installing bespoke moving elements in architecture. Products include roofs, floors, windows, walls and access systems.
Visit meiaSee the transformation of this site from empty space to extraordinary experimental Grand Designs house in South London. "Sliding Glass Roof House" aka "Urban Space Pod"
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