Sextons Cottage was once the Church House to the adjacent St. Pancras Church. This Grade II Listed building is now the Village Hall and a Gift Shop. The building dates from the 16th Century and has had minor alterations and additions from the late 19th Century. Sexton’s House faces a delightfully well enclosed yet un-named […]
An exploration of urban blocks, vistas, streets and 3D forms from Cairo, the Khan el-Khalili Bazaar, New Gourna near Luxor and Bedouin housing in Dahab. Hassan Fathy, the Egyptian architect designed the village at New Gourna using traditional three dimensional forms. His projects focus on vernacular mud brick and incorporate passive cooling techniques. Cooling is […]
Existing and Proposed Ground Floor Plans: The Edwardian House is extended to the south creating new kitchen and dining spaces along with a raised patio. In the original parts of the house, we create a snug and bathroom. Daylighting is a major consideration here, a large patio door to the east overlooking the new raised […]
A delightful composition of parapet gable ends in a ‘T’ shaped plan in red brick, ashlar dressings and clay roof tiles. The project is environment focussed. Stained glass, timber framed secondary glazing that folds back onto the wall, out of the way for summer use. Wood burner room-sealed stove. Whole House Mechanical Ventilation with Heat […]
This design is based on a 60 degree equilateral triangle for maximum strength. We use a simple 1220mm x 2440mm modular panel size. The bamboo staves are 100mm diameter and create a rigid A-frame with trusses and beams. This version of our bamboo house design is made with 7 panel modules. This house size is […]
This house achieves so much for the client. Besides being a low energy home with low CO2 production, the layout has most bedrooms upstairs but crucially, one downstairs for use as an AirBnB let, a lodger or for a future wheelchair user. Passive Houses tend to have minimum sized windows because this is where most of your thermal envelope heat is lost. In this case, as we often try to do, we have four rooflights in this scheme which floods the house with natural sunlight whilst minimising the heat loss. Additionally, the open plan living, kitchen dining space opens onto the south facing garden making the feeling of outdoor living very easy to achieve in the summer months.
Our first Passive House Premium project, designed to generate more energy on-site than it uses, measured over a year. This house faces due south with an asymmetric roof to maximise the solar thermal and solar PV gains. Whilst timber framed, the house has a ground floor masonry slab and stacked masonry bathrooms for thermal mass. […]
Another of our Passive Houses is completed and occupied. Our client benefits from a very low energy house, lots of insulation, thermal mass in the ground floor, heat recovery on the ventilation system, photovoltaics with a house battery and rain water attenuation. The house is clad in a mixture of handmade Northcott brick and VM […]
Our first, not for profit social housing providers’ Passive Houses are complete and ready for occupation.
