Project of a house for football player Gary Neville by MAKE Architects

Gary Neville, English football representative and defender of Manchester United, has decided to demolish the existing house on his property in northern England's Lancashire and build a new energy-efficient project designed by the London studio MAKE Architects. The floor plan of the new house resembles an abstract flower. Ken Shuttleworth talks about “natural inlay”, where the supporting walls of the house bite into the hillside, creating inner atriums in the shape of petals.
However, local residents managed to rename the project according to a children's series to Teletubbyland. The house striving for exemplary blending with the surrounding landscape reminds them of something between an eccentric hobbit hole and a countryside hay bale shelter.
Nevertheless, Shuttleworth compares his design more to Skara Brae, a Neolithic stone settlement in the Orkney Islands of Scotland inhabited between 3100-2500 BC.
The semi-sunken villa of photographer Gary Neville for eight million pounds with an area of 743 m² will be the first “zero-emission” house in the northwest of England. The heart of the project will be a kitchen, around which additional functions of the house will gather, such as dining, resting, entertainment, work, sleep, and play. Unlike Neville's current house with twelve bedrooms, the new design will have a modest number of four bedrooms.
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