The design team’s aim is to create a generic, sustainable approach to residential development, whose innovative methodology can be applied to any site: rural, urban or suburban.

The infrastructure of ‘eco-walls’ is designed to create places for living: spaces for privacy and spaces for interaction. The eco-walls incorporate all services and provide a flexible canvas, offering choices of location and scale of the home. A resident can choose where they want to live, the size of the home they want to live in and how they live in it. This approach could generate a personalised community, created by the people who live there, and one which can be adapted over time.

A standard structural box for all the basic housing elements gives flexibility over internal layout and external appearance. The eco-wall becomes a canvas for self-expression. It comprises two fins with a void between. The void incorporates services and equipment required for an ecologically benign development. The eco-wall is sufficiently flexible to allow space for circulation and access through it, if needed.

Developments of between 40 and 70 homes to the hectare can be created, with gardens, play areas, parking and vehicle access. Each home has a good aspect without overlooking.

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