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Project • By Sanya Polescuk Architects • Private Houses
Sustainable at Heart
A carbon-reducing remodel and retrofit of a detached house in Barnes that could become a template for retrofits of many similar houses across the UK.Sitting outside a Conservation Area and unrestrained by planning, a simple, two-story suburban house from the 1930s went through a piecemeal expansion typical for the 1990s. In under 10 years, it nearly doubled its square meterage, spreading out in all directions.
Agnese Sanvito
Agnese Sanvito
Agnese Sanvito
Agnese Sanvito
The seemingly endless extensions, with ever-bigger windows, finally culminated in the addition of a ubiquitous conservatory, all facing due south. By the 2020s, the house became challenging to live in, fluctuating from too cold in the winter to over... More
Project • By LMNL office • Private Houses
Veldhuis
Located in North Brabant in the southern Netherlands, along a historic road lined with old farms, the Veldhuis (Field house) is conceived as a contemporary home rooted in tradition. Designed by LMNL office [for architecture and landscape], a Dutch studio specialising in architecture using natural and alternative building materials, Veldhuis draws on the archetypal Dutch barn typology: the design reinterprets familiar forms and materials — brick walls and a thatched roof — to meet the needs of modern family life.
Loes van Duijvendijk
The project reflects LMNL’s ongoing pursuit of low-carbon, bio-based construction methods that promote comfort through material performance rather than technology.
Loes van Duijvendijk... 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