CASE STUDY Zinc Shingles on The Amphibious House Project: Amphibious House Address: Buckinghamshire Product: NedZink NOVA Architect: Baca Architects Cladding Subcontractor: Kingsley Specialist Roofing One of the most innovative private houses to be completed recently in the UK is this amphibious house, featured twice on Channel 4’s Grand Designs. We spoke to Robert Barker of Baca Architects about how the project came about, and why they chose to use zinc shingles to clad it. The Project Baca Architects were approached by the new owners of a very compact three-bed house on a fantastic island site on the Thames in Buckinghamshire. The site suffers from very high risk of flooding – predicted by the Envir

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