news AWARDS Passivhaus award winners announced
The Passivhaus Trust (PHT) has announced the winners of the UK Passivhaus Awards 2016, with low- energy homes in London and the Scottish Highlands coming out on top. PHT members voted online and at an
awards ceremony showcasing the short- list on 7 July in London to determine the winners of the competition, which was established to encourage uptake of the Passivhaus standard within the selfbuild market. Tectonics Architects and HLM
Architects were named winners in the Urban and Rural categories respectively. Tectonics’ Lansdowne Drive is a zinc
clad two-story Passivhaus home and thought to be the first Passivhaus certi- fied dwelling to be completed in Hackney, east London. The practice created a building “with the generic sim- plicity, flexibility, light and character found in industrial or studio spaces.”
The structure was prefabricated in
cross laminated timber and erected in two days. Internally, the structural mate- rials and their assembly are left exposed, from concrete or timber to galvanised conduits and ducts. HLM Architects' Tigh na Croit
(shown right) nestles into an area of former crofting land in Gorstan in the Scottish Highlands. This contemporary low energy building is inspired by the rural landscape and is one of the most northerly UK homes
to receive
Passivhaus certification. The primary material for the house is
white render with limited areas of stained timber cladding. Recognisable details of highland rural forms are used in terms of chimneys, roof pitch, verges, eaves and carefully placed openings. This year’s shortlist also featured
RDA Architects' Chiswick Eco Lodge – a bespoke semi-sunk Passivhaus home set
in a dense urban space; Anne Thorne Architects’ L-shaped brick Meeting House built within a York conservation area; Green Building Store's detached Golcar Passivhaus home with clean, simple lines and narrow timber windows; Gresford Architects’ Old Water Tower in rural Newbury and Parsons + Whittley's curved Lime Tree Passivhaus built on a tight arc-shaped garden plot near a protected lime tree. The shortlist was compiled by a jury
featuring Passivhaus experts, architects, journalists and researchers.
Pictured: Tigh na Croit, (winner, Rural category)
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Pictured (L-R): Golcar Passivhaus, Lime Tree Passivhaus, Landsdowne Drive (winner, Urban category)
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