This single storey house connects seamlessly to shared communal space and has its garden on the roof. The communal space could be used to grow food, build a football pitch, have a communal barbeque area and generally bring together a community.

The rooftop garden would have a greenhouse. The designers behind this house are championing the concept of ‘home grown’. The glazed green house on top of the living area, with inbuilt hydroponics centre, allows homeowners to grow their own food and further reduce their carbon footprint.

The house is designed to fit onto a standard sized plot. The arrangement of the house is defined by four blade walls that divide the space into a living/sleeping zone, entry and dining/cooking zone.

The single storey design makes the house simple and fast to build using off-site technology, and allows for upward extension. The two principal volumes of the house are constructed as a hot rolled steel portal frame with blade walls clad in prefabricated brick panels using the Hanson Fastwall system. Front elevations are made from prefabricated timber clad panels. In a terraced arrangement this typology can achieve 40 dwellings per hectare.

External materials are brought into the house where possible to connect the interior with the exterior. The timber floor in the kitchen/dining room extends out to become a decked barbeque area. Blade walls are clad in brick panels inside and out.

Sustainability
To achieve Code for Sustainable Homes level four the house includes such features as:
* Whole house ventilation
* Super insulation
* Triple glazing
* Biomass heating
* Community composting facilities
* Rainwater harvesting with underground storage tank
* Low surface water run-off
* Lifetime Homes standard compliant

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