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Encouraging Good Design and
Sustainability
Tim Kellett
Code 4 affordable housing devon
LHC architects for Devon and Cornwall Housing
It’s official: government to scrap
Code for Sustainable Homes
20 March, 2014 | by Laura Mark
The government has confirmed it will scrap the Code for Sustainable Homes
and incorporate rules on energy efficiency into the Building Regulations
Passivhaus or 'Passive House' is the fastest growing energy performance standard in the world with 30,000 buildings realised to date with the majority of those since the turn of the century.
Build a house that has an excellent thermal performance, exceptional airtightness with mechanical ventilation! Fabric First.
Minimise the 'Heating Demand' of the building - in some residential buildings only specify a heated towel rail as means of conventional heating, this heat can then be recovered and circulated by a Mechanical Ventilation and Heat Recovery (MVHR) unit.
Passivhaus standard
St.Ive East Cornwall
Mitchell Architects Ltd
Little Tregullas, Truro : ARCO 2
Super insulated timber frame sustainable build utilising recycled insulation, breathable construction and natural
materials. Passive solar heating, solar thermal and photovoltaic collectors to generate electricity. Underground
bedrooms with thermal mass and green roofs. The house has been designed to minimise its impact upon the landscape
and environment. The building far exceeds existing building regulations
The house utilises local timber from the site and incorporates largely organic materials throughout using
minimal energy. The building touches lightly on the site on small pad foundations and cantilevers over a
small stream to the north. 500mm of organic insulation. Clad with site grown macrocarpa and roofed in
soil/local plant life, build costs and embodied energy were reduced. Open plan living spaces and a solar
buffer to the south ensure low running costs and flexible living.
Koeschi
“House in the woods”
StAustell ARCO 2
Housing Design Award 2013.
Alison Brookes
‘Be’ housing at Harlow
The Terraced Houses - Affordable
The seven terraced houses, of 90sm and 115sm, are set back on their plots to provide south-
facing front gardens. Each end of the terrace pulled forward to create and enclosed 'courtyard-
like' street. The terraces follow the scheme's principles of central hall, open plan living/dining and
generous bedrooms, with a convertible loft space and cathedral ceilings in 1st floor bedrooms.
Each house has 5.4 sm of Photovoltaic roof tiling.
The courtyard houses are a radical
reconfiguration of typical long and
narrow 5m x 20m terraced house plot
to a 9.5mx10.5m plot. Courtyard spaces
or 'outdoor rooms' interlock with
kitchen/dining and living rooms.
Terrace is accessed off the bedroom
A covered front porch creates a
important semi-public threshold
between the house front door and the
street's shared surfaces
Two passive solar Houses - Porthtowan
Simon Conder Architects
Large windows on the southern
elevations help to bring natural
light into both buildings. They're
shielded by deep verandahs that
reduce heat gain in the summer
but allow winter light to
penetrate and warm the
interiors.
The verandahs also provide
balconies on the upper ground
floor with views along the coast.
Other additions include a first-
floor courtyard, accessible from
three sides, and a large open-
plan living room with a central
wood-burning stove.
Mawgan Porth
Harrison Sutton
Partnership
West Place House : St.Ives
“Architectureand”
Orchard House
Calne
Wiltshire
Studio Octopi Architects
The building sits on the former site of
a walled garden and orchard in
Wiltshire It integrates the historic
stone wall into the proposals.
The client specifically wanted to create a
lasting piece of responsive architecture
that was not defined by her use of a
wheelchair and where the building
interacted effortlessly with the landscape.
The house has been designed to Level 4
of the Code for Sustainable Homes.
Newlyn GalleryMcInnes Usher McKnight Architects
Ty Pren “House of
Wood”
Slate and larch
house.
Brecon Beacons
Fielden Fowles
architectsThe rich local vernacular
inspired the concept of a
modern 'long house',
following the contours of
the land, embedding itself
in the slope of the hill and
responding to the
prevailing conditions.
Over £25,000 wasinvested in greentechnologies. The activeheating strategycombines hot waterfrom the 8KW log boilerand the solar collectorsin a 500 litreaccumulator tanklocated in the northwall.
Contemporaryconstruction techniqueshave delivered athoroughly modern andhigh performancebuilding, whichresponds to thelandscape. The designwas environmentallydriven throughout. The
Murdoch Nesbitt Court
Page and Park Architects
A housing project for Hanover Housing Association.
The housing sought to replicate the character of the small town ‘close’, grouping individual two-storey blocks around a new access road and court. The houses were placed on site to create a series of external spaces, with selected glimpses to the town beyond.
The simple contemporary forms echoed the existing pitched slate roofs with clipped eaves
over white rendered walls. Careful placement of windows enabled the close-knit
placement of blocks by avoiding overlooking whilst maximising views and internal security.
Kilameena Housing Cox Power architects
Broadclose
Farm, Bude
Trewin Design
Housing design
award winner