awards Passivhaus winners show the way for low energy self-build Tigh na Croit
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he Passivhaus Trust (PHT) has announced the winners of the UK Passivhaus Awards 2016 which celebrate individual eco
house design. Passivhaus buildings are designed with scrupulous attention to detail in order to min- imise the energy required to heat or cool the property. The awards aim to encourage uptake of the Passivhaus standard within the self-build market. PHT members voted online and at an
awards ceremony on 7 July in London to determine the winners of the competition. Lansdowne Drive by Tectonics Architects (pictured right) and Tigh na Croit by HLM Architects (pictured above) were named as winners in the Urban and Rural categories. Lansdowne Drive is a zinc clad two-storey
home which is the first Passivhaus certified dwelling in Hackney, east London. The prac- tice 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 materials and their assembly are left exposed, from concrete and timber to galvanised conduits and ducts. The Rural category winner Tigh na Croit
nestles into an area of former crofting land in Gorstan in the Scottish Highlands. This con- temporary low energy building is inspired by
Lansdowne Drive
the rural landscape and is one of the most northerly certified Passivhaus UK schemes. The primary material used for the house’s
exterior is white render with limited areas of stained timber cladding. Recognisable details of highland rural forms are used such as chim- neys, roof pitch, verges, eaves and carefully placed openings. This year’s shortlist also featured RDAs’ 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 –a 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 for the awards was compiled
by a jury which included the CEO of the PHT Jon Bootland, as well as expert researchers in the field and journalists.
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