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…
Year: 2021
This Is The High End Of PassivHaus Design; Premium Status, Low Energy, On-site Generation.
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.…
REDMAK PASSIVE HOUSE CLIENT MOVES INTO THE COMPLETED HOME.
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…
REDMAK PASSIVE HOUSES COMPLETE AND READY FOR OCCUPATION
Our first, not for profit social housing providers' Passive Houses are complete and ready for occupation.
NORTH SEA ARCHIPELAGO: Part 2
UK North Sea breakwaters on the 12nm territorial water limit, new off-shore harbour villages, nature reserves, wind power, land reclamation and consequential east coast regeneration. To see the full presentation of…
NORTH SEA ARCHIPELAGO: Part 1
Low surface pressure combined with spring tides with the depression cnetred on the eastern North Sea results in higher than usual waves and consequential flooding of the North Sea coast.
Traditional Housing Typology: Siheyuan (for more, click here)
A traditional housing form from China called siheyuan; without direct translation, it means something like 'courtyard house'. It was most common in the north, in and around Beijing but was developed into a typology for…
Historic Housing Model: Hakka Rammed Earth Wall (for more, click here)
This southern Chinese traditional house form is a circular protected village encompassed by a rammed earth wall normally 2, 3 or 4 storeys high with many families; in fact, the whole village living within. At some…
Approaches to the Enclosure of Public Space (for more, click here)
An exploration of the strength of enclosure vs. the looseness of puplic squares and piazzas. Starting with very simple shapes, we explore the expression of character and enclosure by changing the position of entry into…