Client: National Museums & Galleries of Wales
Title: House for the Future
Location: Wales, UK
Description: Winner - Welsh Housing Design Award 2002
Winner - National Homebuilder Design Award 2001
Commissioned by The National Museums and Galleries of Wales and BBC Wales and completed in December 2000, this new house is an exemplar of low energy design.
The design is directly informed by the key issue of sustainability with the use of local low embodied energy, natural and recycled materials and challenges the energy profligate status quo of volume house building.
The house is proposed as a model for the future, capable of reproduction and repetition in a multitude of configurations and is designed to be flexible and capable of adaptation. It is also designed to be carbon neutral and relies on a strategy of sensible energy use.
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