OLIVER HEATH


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Architecture By Oliver Heath Founder, Heath Design Ltd


Oliver Heath is the founder of Heath Design Ltd, a practice specialising in sustainable design solutions. Their work comprises of innovative housing schemes, exhibition and commercial work and they act as sustainable design consultants for a variety of international businesses. Oliver is the author of three design books, his latest Urban Eco Chic, investigates how the practical and aesthetic issues surrounding eco homes can successfully be brought together. He is also a television broadcaster having presented shows on BBC1, 2, ITV, Channel 4 and the Discovery channel. Here, Oliver gives his view on blurring the boundaries between architecture and interior design.


better; functionally easier and of course more beautiful. But what if we were to expand on this remit, just a little, and consider that the work that we create, the interiors that we install, have an impact beyond the front doors of the properties that we work within? We are all familiar with the


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concepts of sustainable design, but for many this is something that ends with the architect and the building shell, surely our roles as interior designers are limited? For me the concepts of sustainability, or as I see it more simply, “good design” is embedded in every space and every object that we surround


s designers our goal is to make lives and the spaces that surround them


Above: A living room concept 128 | 2012 | INTERIOR DESIGN YEARBOOK |


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