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Project • By Architecture for London • Private Houses
Hackney House
This early Victorian house in Hackney was restored and retrofitted to create a warm and comfortable, family home. A rear extension provides family entertaining space and improves the connection to the garden at the rear. A new curved stair in lime plaster leads to the loft conversion, which provides an additional bedroom with a generous dormer window.
Nick Dearden
The house is fossil fuel free, with two air source heat pumps in the rear garden running the underfloor heating. An MVHR unit supplies fresh, filtered pre-heated air. The house was insulated internally with wood fibre and aerogel was used in window reveals to remove potential cold bridges and reduce condensation risk.
Nick Dearden
Nick Dearden
Embodied energy was... More
News • News • 15 Feb 2022
Low Energy House sets the standard for the sustainable refurbishment of a typical terraced London home
In London’s Muswell Hill, this Edwardian terrace house was extended and refurbished by Architecture for London into a low energy house. As the home of Ben Ridley, Director at Architecture for London, the project strives to set an example of the sustainable refurbishment of a typical terraced London home, within a constrained budget. Embodied energy and energy in-use were considered in depth throughout the project.
Lorenzo Zandri
While celebrating the original structure and beauty of the house, new additions include a rear extension and loft conversion while energy requirements are dramatically reduced thanks to new triple-glazing and added insulation.
Lorenzo Zandri
The existing walls were insulated... More