The Brief
A home on one of the steepest sites Grand Designs had seen
Endeavour sits on a dramatic, north-facing hillside in Malvern, looking out over an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. The site's severe slope — which Kevin McCloud described as one of the steepest bits of land he'd come across — drove the entire design.
Our response was an "upside-down" house: the kitchen and open-plan living spaces sit on the top floor to capture the light and the long views, with bedrooms below and the entrance, garage and workshop tucked into the hillside at the lowest level.
