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The Russian director’s sci-fi classic Stalker is the unlikely inspiration for this playful, intriguing family home in the South Downs
Stalker, the 1979 sci-fi film by the great Russian director Andrei Tarkovsky, is a gloomy, troubling work. It describes a dangerous journey into a forbidden territory called the Zone, on which a writer and a scientist are guided by the eponymous Stalker. They are seeking “the room”, a place where your innermost desires are granted, which may not be a good thing. Death and suicide are among the consequences for at least some of those who reach it. Be careful what you wish for, you might say.
“It’s a bit strange,” muses the architect Adam Richards, “to base a house on such a bleak film.” Indeed. Such, though, is exactly what he has done with Nithurst Farm, the sweetly named house he has designed for himself and his family in the soft, green, gently grand landscape of West Sussex. The building has been shortlisted for the RIBA House of the Year award, the winner of which will be unveiled on Channel 4’s Grand Designs on 13 November. Continue reading...