Fayland House, Buckinghamshire. Picture: Rik Nys for David Chipperfield Architects. Source: Supplied

Fayland House, designed by David Chipperfield Architects has taken out the top award for best house in the AR house awards.

The judges said the home was a “radical new take on the English country house’’.

Editor of the Architectural Review, Christine Murray, said the judges found the house “subverted the expectations set up by its rigid, rhythmical facade’’.

“The project pushes at boundaries.

“They also found its restrained opulence interesting, but I think the real enthusiasm was in the courtyards embedded in its asymmetric plan and that beautiful enfilade.’’

The house is in the Chiltern Hills between the villages of Skirmett and Hambleden in southern England.

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The site was previously occupied by a two-storey house with a number of outbuildings including

two garages, a summer house, large stables, a gym, a greenhouse and an outdoor swimming pool.

The new single-storey house is embedded in the field facing southwest towards the

valley.

Ancillary rooms in the house open onto smaller courtyards.

The building is designed to be essentially buried in the landscape.

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