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