The best of British has a new sustainable future, taking inspiration from the Georgians with its formal street facade and informality to the rear. Brick is used as a traditional British material, the scale and desnity refers to mews housing, and the oriel window picks up on Victorian bay windows and connect to the street.

Design

While drawing on the solidity of its tradtional brick facade and archetypal British looks, the architect has also tunred the template upside down. Living space is distributed throughout the upper storeys in the staircase void to the rear, while the bedrooms give on the front. The core of the house is a three storey services module, with facilities requiring drainage and plumbing stacked above each othet: the house has a kitchen wall, bathroom and utility room on the ground floor, bathroom on the first and plant/water storage tank on the second. The house has both a roof terrace and a small ground floor patio included within its 9m by 9m plot, giving privacy to the occupants and acoustic protection to the surrounding houses.

Technical

Built from prefabricated timber-framed modules with a “Corium” brick cladding
A triple-height space assists with the circulation of warmed air in winter
Solar panels and a district wind turbine system would generate renewable electricity

Innovation

Three storey fully-serviced kitchen and bathroom “core”, sized to be delivered to site by a single lorry

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