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for childrens’ charity Barnardo’s, Gap Homes. Te desire is to create a safe, transitional home for children leaving care to steer them into the next phase of their adult lives.


Even old fashioned estate owners are trying to ring changes: the Mount Stuart Estate, the big landowner on the Scottish island of Bute for hundreds of years, recently launched 10 eco homes designed by local architects Architeco to passivhaus standard, to support a small and


almost self-sustaining community. And these are offered not for sale (and thus in danger of off-island AirBnBers getting rich off the idyllic setting) but for rent, in order to try and keep youngsters and young families from heading to the mainland.


Architects are also building innovative new schemes where they act as their own developers. Stolon Studio has made something of a reputation for community-centric housing,


with its Kaolin Court project in Lewisham, plus further projects across London and Herefordshire. Perhaps better still, they have flagged up the possibility of doing things differently, attracting a private developer to want to create homes that are both zero carbon but also big on community (see the Stables Yard case study).


Te situation may be worst in places like the UK or US, but even in continental Europe,


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The Vertical Forest structure comprises white concrete horizontal bands sandwiched between strips of


solar-reflective glazing, and is lined and beautified, top to bottom, with thousands of plants, shrubs and trees,


PAOLO ROSSELLI


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