WuduHus Home / Mole Architects
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- Space :
120 m²
12 months :
2019
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Lead Architects :
Ian Bramwell, Susie Newman
Textual content description supplied by the architects. The shopper commissioned Mole to design their new home in 2017. Retiring from their position as a headteacher within the southwest, they appeared for a venture to satisfy a lifelong ambition of self-building. A key ambition for the venture was to scale back reliance on fossil fuels and reduce expenditure on heating by their retirement. A dedicated environmentalist, the shopper selected the plot for proximity by way of public transport to London, house to develop your personal, and the gorgeous views throughout the fens.
The resultant home has a primary ground compromising of an open plan kitchen, eating, and lounge, and an en-suite master suite. All have views throughout the Fens, the bed room trying east to catch the dawn and the lounge balcony dealing with west, a beautiful vantage level to observe the sundown.
On the bottom ground are a storage, utility/ boot room, examine, and visitor bed room. The shopper was eager to plan forward noticed the home as a spot to spend a few years of retirement. With this in thoughts, a carry was included and positioned energy sockets at waist top. A non-public visitor bed room is usefully separated on the bottom ground and may enable for a carer to remain when required.
The exterior look and cladding have been partly impressed by the vegetable crates staked in yards across the fens, composed of tough sawn overlapping larch boards. Finer white stained timber clads areas near the doorway and rear backyard door.
The home was designed utilizing the Passivhaus software program (though it was determined to not search certification) and the timber body cassettes have been constructed by specialists Beattie Passive, who erected and ensured airtightness. The home exceeds the airtightness necessities of Passivhaus, attaining 0.36.
Since being accomplished in 2019 the shopper has monitored vitality efficiency diligently. Designed with two small panel radiators to be used on the very coldest of days, these have barely seen motion. Whole vitality use is nicely beneath Passivhaus requirements, when measured on the meter, with the 120m2 home utilizing 45Kw/h/m2/Annum. supplemented by roof-mounted PV panels, giving an additional 15Kw/h/m2/Annum. The shopper’s dedication to environmentally delicate construct prolonged to inside finishes in addition to efficiency. Pure Linoleum flows all through the primary ground, and low VOC paints have been used to complete partitions and woodwork. Waste timber was reused for backyard furnishings, and rainwater is harvested to irrigate the productive backyard.
The shopper is a eager gardener and a productive, but pure backyard options wildflower meadows, pure fertilizing crops, and vegetable plots.
Wuduhus is an instance of the right way to construct a compact household home on a minimal finances to the very best performing vitality conservation requirements. The shopper has proven dedication to sustainable practices and delivered themself a home that protects the planet and themself from future vitality value rises, throughout their retirement (when incomes are fastened) Constructed to modest budgets the home demonstrates the shopper no frills method concentrating on the material first, and is a response to its context, pragmatic however wealthy and life enhancing.
