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Knights Hill
A family dwelling on the edge of a rural settlement in Sussex. This house is designed around passive principles and features local low carbon and low embodied construction materials. Brick and slate will be sourced from reclaimed supplies.
Carbon Neutral Housing Studies
Physical model studies for modular low cost low carbon housing in the North West of England.
Headlands House
Headlands House demonstrates how traditional brick construction can be used in tandem with other local crafts and materials to provide beautiful contemporary solutions that are ecologically, socially and economically sustainable. The unusual organic building form has evolved from a unique response to external orientation, site constraints, privacy and views across the valley as well as from an understanding of how the client and his family live and move internally around their home. It plan is based on the tradition of having the fire as the social and communal focus of the home.
Ockington Country House
New PPS7 country house located in rural Forest of Dean. Fundamental to the design proposals is the need to establish a development that balances the functional requirements of a family home with the aspirations for an innovative and exemplary low carbon dwelling set within an English rural context. The ‘innovative nature’ of the new house is an organic expression of its context, formal requirement and environmental performance - it is an ‘isolated new house’ that has an ‘evolved’ form - a unique piece of rural architecture that is harmoniously at balance with its surrounding landscape and ecology. It continues and enhances the strong regional vernacular tradition without resorting to pastiche.
Dial House
New house located in a Hertfordshire edge of villiage location. High thermal performance levels, ground source heat exchange system and local materials all feature.
Dancers End
A new house on a west facing ,steeply sloped, site in Hertfordshire. The house is for a young family and is organised around a series of outside garden spaces. The entry point is from the upper level across a bridge onto a roof garden with pergola which leads the the main stair and the main living spaces of the house. Bedrooms and family rooms are on the lower level opening onto a shallow pool.
ECOBos Code 6 House
Code for Sustainable Homes Level 6 detached house was designed to allow for multiple orientations for solar access to provide good quality of passive solar gain. The image shows the rear of the dwelling with a north facing front door orientation.
ECOBos Terraced Units
A three bedroom terraced unit for the ECOBos ECO Town in Cornwall. The unit meets Code for Sustainable Homes Level 5. The dwelling is designed to permit managed extension via the vertical circulation zone into attic spaces.
Englemere
Behind the uniform arts and crafts frontages of suburbia is a cumulative enlargement and alteration that is the hidden evidence of changes in the way we live. The family focus is now the extended kitchen, garden and leisure room rather than the now neglected ‘front parlour’.
Glencoe Villas
Feasibility study for a new outdoor activity centre on the shores of Loch Leven, Scotland. The site is situated on a slate tidal beach between two small sheltered bays. The roof forms are clad in natural slate from the site and the interiors and raised terraces overlooking the loch are constructed from local timber.
Berkhamsted High Street
This proposal for Berkhamsted in Hertfordshire included 12 duplex apartments within a 4-story block. We are aiming to achieve target density rates of above 80 units per hectare. Although high all apartments have access to private gardens. By making use of normally redundant roof surfaces we are able to provide private outdoor gardens equivalent in size to Victorian terraced housing at greater densities. Southfacing vertical conservatories are also included.
Little Copped Hall
Proposals for 3 5 bedroom family houses within the site of an old diary farm. Earth bunded courtyard forms provide dwellings that are oriented due south for good daylighting and passive solar gain. Each unit has private south facing external amenity and the roof forms ensure overlooking is avoided. The entrance and front elevations are partially earth sheltered to ensure reduced visual impact from across open country side within which the site is located. Local hand made brick and clay tiles ensure that the buildings contribute and extend the local vernacular.
Pickwick Country House
Concept designs for a large country house located on an abandoned pig farm. The strategy focused on blending the large volumes into the open landscape bluring the boundaries between the two.
Rose Cottages
The design is for a new housing development situated on the eastern boundary of Berkhamsted. The site is adjacent to the northern edge of the Grand Union Canal and is bounded by the main NE railway line. A curved brick wall forms the north elevation creating a secondary skin to buffer sound and provide a retaining structure. This space created forms an indoor courtyard which is lit from above by south facing skylights. The thermal mass of this space contributes to the overall low energy strategy.
Shootup Hill
Site is a sensitive planning site and is subject to designations based on both ‘openness’ and nature conservation. The site has an existing reservoir structure which offers a possibility to create a mews development in the basin of the ‘tank’. The height would allow two floors of development whilst maintaining the same level of openness currently enjoyed by the adjoining houses.
Starck House
The house is designed to have almost no visual impact when viewed across open countryside. View across site An earth bermed courtyard design ensured the clients could still have access to open views and their own private external amenity. The circular form enables a simple retained structure. Low carbon strategies are proposed with the greater proportion of external elevation oriented south for passive solar gains. Northern aspect and heat loss is negligible. Light cores, lightpipes and courtyards ensure ventilation and natural daylight is abundant within the single aspect plan. This simple form provides a platform for us to research models for rural housing within English open countryside and village fringes.
Spring Meadow Barn
A dilapidated metal agricultural barn dating back to the 50’s occupies the site at present. This is situated on fairly steep slope of meadowland culminating in a secluded valley. The valley itself is bounded on two sides by mature conifer trees. The site has a very special nature and it is this asset that the current owners wish not only to retain but also to enhance. The new building is designed to have a low ecological footprint As far as is possible natural and local materials are used. The primary structure for the roof is constructed from the existing conifer resource that is retained within the site and the walls of the main hall will utilise straw bail construction.
Sugden House
This design is for a new replacement dwelling on the site of a 1950’s house. The proposal will include a five bed house. The form of the house responds to solar orientation, privacy and quality of external space. Local planning policy indicates that flank wall windows are to be discouraged for reasons of privacy to adjoining properties. As this design proposal aims to reduce its carbon foot print we are aiming to capitalise on passive solar gain from the southern orientation.
Trotter House
This house for a young family is situated within Childrey village in Oxfordshire. The small site is fully enclosed within an historic brick garden wall. The clients seek to establish an ecologically sound design that will aim towards a zero carbon emission goal. The house will primarily use strawbail and green timber construction all sourced locally.
The White House
A courtyard house located on the edge of a village facing on to open countryside. Difficult planning constraintes led to an earth sheltered house with open views across the valley. The site slopes to the north and this restricted the ability to utilise passive solar gain techniques. By creating a central sunken courtyard it was possible to get a substantial proportion of south facing glazing into the living areas without any visual impact of buit form from the adjoining properties.
West Winds House
Concept designs for a courtyard house that explores the relationships between external and internal spaces and passive solar gain. Constructed from local handmade clay brick and zinc standing seam roofing.
Ladyman Barn
A new extension in a Hertfordshire villiage conservation area. The project adds a new living space to the existing barn within the garden. The garden is excavated t oconnect the new spaces to the existing basement. The design provides extensive views, daylighting and passive solar gain. The curved form of the retaining wall eliminates the need for cantilever footings.
