INTERIOR DOORS A Wood Idea www.awoodidea.co.uk


STAIRCASE Specialised Metalwork  


LIFT


Newmatic Elevators www.newmaticelevators.com


PELLET BOILER Windhager (BioWIN 2 Touch 15 kW) www.windhager.co.uk


VENTILATION UNIT (MVHR) Brink (Renovent Excellent 400) www.brinkhrv.com


PET ACCESS petWALK www.petwalk.uk


KITCHEN EXTRACT Berbel www.berbel.uk


KITCHEN Kestrel Kitchens www.kestrelkitchens.co.uk


STOVE (LIVING AREA) Stove Solutions www.stovesolutions.co.uk


LIGHTING Aline Johnson Glass Design (Glass Hanky Shades) www.alinejohnson.co.uk


Light Shopping (Cacio & Pepe cheese grater shades) www.lightshopping.com/en


Made in Design (Libellule wire shades) www.madeindesign.co.uk


Graypants (wasps’ nest shades)


graypants.eu


Panik Design (Innermost Jeeves & Wooster bowler hat shades)


panik-design.com


UPHOLSTERY Sewplush sewplush.com


exed to follow the curved surface of the joists. The depth of the overhang increases as the roof height rises, to provide shading and prevent overheating in summer. reek abin reuired a bespoke glaing solution, and the reenteps candinavian limline timberaluminium triple glaed system was chosen for a crisp, modern appearance. Unusual features include a four metre curved triple glaed window, ignal ellow coloured opening sashes, and special installation detailing to allow completely hidden upper frames in the clerestory glaing. Another challenge was the reuirement to achieve high levels of thermal comfort while keeping the embodied carbon low – achieved using a mostly timber structure, with sheep wool and wood fibre insulation on the upper levels. Throughout the detailing it was important to avoid thermal bridges, and this led to a highly insulated structure, including the ground oor slab, which sits on sover soLohr loadbearing insulation formwork, manufactured offsite. The external walls at first oor level were constructed using teico insulated joists, with wood fibre insulation fixed to the outside to complete the thermal envelope. The project was a technically complex challenge for the couple, with Sarah and imon reuiring a range of off-grid energy systems and innovative features. Although we built to assivhaus guidelines, we chose


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not to be restrained by seeking full assivhaus certification, so we did install a boiler, which makes up for having so much glass,” Simon asserts.


ven the family pets were considered in the design, with a thermally broken and digitally controlled petAL pet door installed through the ground oor wall, allowing them to come and go without increasing the heat loss of the house. osts did go up and up,” says imon. “We went for an open book arrangement because the build was so complicated, and the final cost was around ,,.” The annual energy demand for space heating and lighting has been optimised using assive ouse lanning ackage  software, which also modelled the risk of the house overheating in summer.


A  array is sited near the south east boundary, facing the adjacent field where it is not visible from the road or the footpath alongside the creek to the north. Top-up heating and hot water are provided by a wood pellet boiler, sited outside on the bank above ood level. e were extremely involved with every element of the build, and even mocked up our kitchen with chipboard, balanced on dustbins, to check spacing,” says imon. assive houses really should be the norm, and we wanted to show that low energy buildings can still look great.”


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ROOF


The undulating planted roof is one of a kind, and was designed to echo the surrounding countryside


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