Hidden water pools. Tour of the First PassivHaus in UK. Photo: B. Alter This lovely looking Victorian house in west London seems deceptively straightforward except for a tiny plaque on the front door. It notes that this is the second house in the UK to reach PassivHaus standards. And that is no mean feat. Last year Lloyd outlined the challenges of bringing high environmental standards such as PassivHaus to this heritage house. Now we went back to see the finished product: it's the Livia Firth of houses. Photo: B. Tom Pakenham, creator and owner of Green Tomato Cars ( a green mini-cab firm) has renovated this house to PassivHaus standards. The year long conversion is finished now, and as can be seen, it is a beautiful, light and airy house and a showcase for people and architects wanting to have a green home. The essence of PassivHaus-ing is insulation.
The house is south facing so in the summer some temporary shading is needed. And what a job. Photo: B.Alter: Heat Extractor Photo: B.Alter: Outside back View Photo: B. Photo: B. Photo: B. Emergent Tom Wiscombe, LLC 涌现组. Copyright © 1999-2012 GoDaddy.com, LLC. All rights reserved. *One FREE .COM, .CO, .NET or .ORG with purchase of a new 12-, 24- or 36-month website builder plan. Plus ICANN fee of $0.18 per domain name per year. You must add the domain name into your cart before purchase, and you must select a domain term length equal to or less than the term length of your website builder plan to qualify for the free domain offer. . + New .COMs $7.99/yr plus 18 cents/yr ICANN fee.
3XN - arkitekter. An Australian House With Rippling Walls | Architecture Annex. Australian architect Frank Macchia combined curved elements with rectangular volumes to create an eye-catching rippled effect for this house outside of Melbourne. From the front façade, two taller walls distort perspective, while different materials and colors add to the vibrancy of the overall design. The effect of rolling, rising, and falling, can also be seen on the inside. Like the exterior, a range of materials are used for the interior, including wood, glass, stone, and concrete, but there’s a unity despite the variety. The interior of the Blairgowrie Court Residence is also dominated by chocolate walls and ample of natural light from oversized windows.
An Australian House With Rippling Walls by Architecture Annex. Startseite. Info@k-m-architektur.com. Banq – A Magnificent Restaurant by Office dA | Best Home News - Аll about interior design, architecture, furniture, landscape and decorating. This magnificent restaurant, serving meals from France, Vietnam, Thailand and India,was choosen from Wallpaper.com for the best new restaurant in Boston. Located at 1375 Washington Street, in the base of old bank.
If you walk at this place, you`ll remember it. The wall and ceilings are decorate using wave element made from unique pieces of three-quarter-inch birch plywood adhered together in a scenario that likens to a puzzle; only one possible location for each unit, formulating the continuous member. Below the ceiling, the functional aspects of a dining space are fabricated with warm woods and relaminated bamboo amplifying the striping affect already at play throughout the space. Designed by Office dA. You can see more detail about Banq at Office dA website here. Tags: bamboo amplifying, birch plywood, Boston restaurant, contemporary design, modern restaurant, restaurant interior design. Lolita by Langarita-Navarro Arquitectos. Spanish studio Langarita-Navarro Arquitectos have completed a road-side restaurant and event space on a motorway junction near Zaragoza, Spain.
Called Lolita, it aims to rethink the typical pit-stop restaurant and provide flexible facilities for everyone from long-distance truck drivers to local students. The building features a cluster of white-rendered and timber-clad forms that take their cue from nearby industrial buildings. Lolita presents a blank facade to the approach road and car park while the dining areas are arranged to provide views onto a landscape of gravel and trees. Photographs are by Miguel de Guzman. Here's some more information from the architects: Lolita, infrastructure for events and meals Km 45 A-122, La Almunia de Doña Godina, Zaragoza Roadside restaurants are a rare species within the increasingly prestigious restaurant world. The interior is characterised by a patterned/semi-perforated concrete slab and by the wood, glass and polycarbonate of the walls.
See also: I drifted off for a moment. The Cave by Gonzalo Vaíllo Martínez. Architecture student Gonzalo Vaíllo Martínez of the Universidad de Alcalá, Spain has designed a conceptual auditorium for the Tate Modern gallery in London. Called The Cave, the design features a series of overlapping planted ramps, which would form the foyer and access routes into an underground auditorium. The proposal intends to connect the Tate Modern with other landmarks in the area and incorporates the creation of a new park.
The project begun during an exchange programme with the Bartlett School of Architecture in London. Here's some more information from Martínez: This is the Degree Project of Gonzalo Vaíllo Martínez. It was presented last September 2010 in the Universidad de Alcalá (Spain) with a mark of A. The work was begun during an exchange program with the Professor Colin Fournier of the Bartlett School of Architecture and it was carried on with the tutor Ángel Verdasco Novalvos. A new park is created whit the intention of solving it and a new auditorium was included. See also: Concrete House II. A-cero designed a big single-family house with a 1.600 square meter built surface in the outskirts of Madrid.
Here is the project description: The first sensation that this house produces when people go into the plot is that the building seems to be hidden between concrete walls and vegetable ramps that extend up to the roof. They are dyed in dark gray and contain, between them, vegetation areas that seem to climb towards the sky. The house´s façade show a spectacular organic view of the whole house and so even the hard concrete shows its most kind face. The back front of the house is totally opened towards the garden where the lounge, dining room, library, study and bedrooms are. In this façade the wide windows, the volumes set and the projections (made of concrete too enhance. The plot includes also an elegant garden, a small lake and a pádel track.
Enjoyed this post? 1930's Church Transformed Into Amazing House in Rotterdam. The original church was a voluminous building with a high roof lined with beautiful wood paneling and a choir platform on one side with two dormer windows. In total, the volume of the church was 3,000 cubic meters, which is around 6 times larger than the average family home in the area. The volume was far grander than the family needed, but there was no need to tear the building down as it was in good working order, so Ruud Visser Architects set out to design a ‘luxurious house of normal measurements.’
BRE: BRE Code Consultancy. Those delivering or procuring to the Code for Sustainable Homes face a suite of issues, whether your aspiration is meeting social housing requirements (Level 3) or the challenging target of Zero Carbon (Level 6). The main challenges faced include: Strategic decision making. Developers and client organisations have to build an understanding of the Code which is sufficient to enable informed strategic decisions to be made.
To develop sound strategy, how will organisations keep their teams abreast of the key technological developments and aware of the best delivery options? Practical application.Delivery teams have to be able to assess the likelihood of success in obtaining credits across 34 diverse areas of the Code - many being disciplines in their own right. Integration.Collaboration and relationship management with key stakeholders is going to be central to success.