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</iframe</noscript> <div grid-row="" grid-pad="2" grid-gutter="4"> <div grid-col="x11" grid-pad="2"><h2>Bather’s<br></h2><br> <small><br> Bather’s Cabin is conceived as an architecture of ritual — a highly crafted retreat organised around the restorative experience of water. Set deep within the woodland at Great Park Farm, the cabin is positioned to maximise privacy and immersion within the surrounding canopy, allowing bathing to become both a spatial and sensory dialogue with the forest.<br> <br> The design draws from the vernacular granaries and elevated grain stores once common across Southeast England. These modest agricultural structures, historically raised to protect harvests from moisture and pests, are reinterpreted here as a contemporary timber pavilion lifted lightly above the woodland floor. The cabin’s form is wrapped in vertically louvered larch cladding, sourced from the surrounding estate, providing filtered light, privacy, and natural ventilation while referencing traditional drying sheds. </small> </div> <div grid-col="x11" grid-pad="2"><img width="6240" height="3900" width_o="6240" height_o="3900" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8b627d087163800df5380cf94d35bd5af42eab6355e8f503172f609b42fae7aa/Duffy---Architects-Jan-2026-Shoot-small-file-28.jpg" data-mid="244222203" border="0" /><br> </div> </div> <br> <div grid-row="" grid-pad="2" grid-gutter="4"> <div grid-col="x11" grid-pad="2"> <small><i><b>Status:</b> complete Spring 2026</i><br><i><b>Client:</b> Architect’s Holiday</i><br><i><b>Location:</b> East Sussex, UK</i><br><i><b>Contractor:</b> Barwick Bespoke & Land Works</i><br><i><b>Interiors: </b>Built Works</i><i></i><br><i><b>Structural Engineer: </b>Structure Studio</i><br><i><b>Services: </b>Harley Haddow & MNE</i><br><i><b>Ecology & Arboricultural Consultant: </b>PJC</i><br> <i></i><i><b>Environmental Consultant: </b>Ambiental<b><br>Planning Consultant: </b>Batchelor Monkhouse</i><br><i><b>Highways Engineer: </b>i-Transport</i><i></i><br><i><b>Surveyor:</b> Batchelor Monkhouse</i><br> <i><b>Topographical Surveyor:</b> PointBIM</i><br><i><b>Building Control: </b>Vantage</i><br><i><b>Visualiser: </b>Ness Studio</i><br><i><b>Photography: </b>Connor<b> </b>Duffy</i><br><i><b>PR & Strategy: </b>Clare Doohan</i><br> <br> <img width="4061" height="6092" width_o="4061" height_o="6092" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a31eda334c4f285054358e1541ebe78fe153ffb78aedf5f8ae1e5fbaf4b31bb7/Duffy---Architects-Jan-2026-Shoot-small-file-37.jpg" data-mid="244222208" border="0" /></small> <br> <br> </div> <div grid-col="x11" grid-pad="2"><img width="3899" height="5598" width_o="3899" height_o="5598" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e4581774f19167bc1e646e10027ebfa6ebc3716cd2020425baaa871a3d363cb2/Duffy---Architects-Jan-2026-Shoot-small-file-31.jpg" data-mid="244222205" border="0" /><img width="6125" height="3659" width_o="6125" height_o="3659" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9c7bf5a7ebf8837121ddff3399915ba97ee1c0abdd66a44a1f305f638eb47bf4/Duffy---Architects-Jan-2026-Shoot-small-file-30.jpg" data-mid="244222204" border="0" /><br> </div> </div> <div grid-row="" grid-pad="2" grid-gutter="4"> <div grid-col="x11" grid-pad="2"> <small><i><a href="https://www.caibc.biz/" target="_blank"></a></i> Externally, the larch is treated with Scandinavian pine tar, producing a deep blackened finish that anchors the building within the woodland shadows while enhancing durability and weather resistance. Internally, the architecture becomes tactile and intimate, with hand-crafted joinery, natural stone and ceramic surfaces, and timber linings creating a calm, material-rich environment centred around a bespoke soaking bath overlooking the forest.<br> <br> Above, a secluded rooftop spa terrace extends the bathing sequence into the open air, incorporating sauna, hot tub and ice bath elements. Together, the cabin forms a carefully choreographed sequence of thermal and spatial transitions, exploring architecture as a vehicle for rest, recovery, and sensory connection to landscape.<br><br> <img width="4074" height="5520" width_o="4074" height_o="5520" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a2f1290b7db0859ce9fad17fb4e2120f8da906b5b98d24b6794a083cb0596bc3/Duffy---Architects-Jan-2026-Shoot-small-file-32.jpg" data-mid="244222206" border="0" /></small><br> </div> <div grid-col="x11" grid-pad="2" class=""><img width="4084" height="5903" width_o="4084" height_o="5903" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6bbe6b08ed7b24ced8b2994ccf09e150d94dd7d00304c2d78ebc035825a2b630/Duffy---Architects-Jan-2026-Shoot-small-file-36.jpg" data-mid="244222207" border="0" /></div> </div><div grid-row="" grid-pad="2" grid-gutter="4"><div grid-col="x11" grid-pad="2" class=""><img width="3981" height="5684" width_o="3981" height_o="5684" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f070b97d1182b7164789a3e1289cfb5c67dc2a91c2ac7e378be01841544d6795/Duffy---Architects-Jan-2026-Shoot-small-file-25.jpg" data-mid="244222201" border="0" /></div> <div grid-col="x11" grid-pad="2"><img width="4150" height="5739" width_o="4150" height_o="5739" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1e90c9691e28b6d8a8c1c0dab79fd92a1c3815dd0ad3b5d88d27592dca2e3517/Duffy---Architects-Jan-2026-Shoot-small-file-26.jpg" data-mid="244222202" border="0" /><br> </div></div> <br> <br> <div grid-row="" grid-pad="2" grid-gutter="4"><div grid-col="x11" grid-pad="2"><h2><i>project development.</i></h2></div> <div grid-col="x11" grid-pad="2"><br> </div></div> <br> <br> <div grid-row="" grid-pad="2" grid-gutter="4"><div grid-col="x11" grid-pad="2"><br> </div> <div grid-col="x11" grid-pad="2"><br> </div></div> <br> <br> <div grid-row="" grid-pad="2" grid-gutter="4"><div grid-col="x11" grid-pad="2"><br> </div> <div grid-col="x11" grid-pad="2"><br><br> <br> </div></div> <br><br> <br><br><br> <br></projectcontent> </div> </bodycopy> </div> <div class="page_background"></div> <style class="local-css" data-target="38161332"> [local-style="38161332"] .container_width { width: 95% /*!variable_defaults*/; 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