Lifetime Passivhaus, Clungunford
This Passivhaus home will be an accessible and adaptable home that celebrates the client’s ambition to live a low energy and sustainable lifestyle long into their retirement.
The living and outdoor spaces will be laid out on permaculture principles, locating the most frequently used spaces within close proximity of each other and radiating less frequently used spaces out from this point.
We are currently developing ideas for a courtyard plan, made up of a simple and efficient thermal envelope for the living spaces, with ancillary and outdoor covered spaces creating the enclosure for a central productive kitchen garden at the heart of the courtyard.
The current design is informed by the traditional farmsteads the clients enjoy visiting. Playing with the traditional courtyard house we’ve pulled apart the key living spaces around external growing spaces.
“We were looking for a local architect to help us develop a self-build Passivhaus and contacted 6 practices. We were impressed with Arbor when we met them and they were very helpful in letting us see a similar development that they had worked on.
We have now been working with them for over 12 months and at each stage they have been able to express our requirements in the designs that they have produced. They have been very flexible in the way that they have worked with us. We have now received pre-application approval and we trust them to help us all the way through to the build management. We would definitely recommend them.”
Simon Lyster