Client/Developer: Phil Bixby & Caroline Lewis
Architect/Designer: Constructive Individuals
Builder: Kent Building Developments
The Sustainable Design Award is given to a project where the judges were hugely impressed by the designer’s holistic and skilful handling of the project’s commitment to sustainable design.
Highly thermally efficient and airtight new build elements sit alongside a modest traditional building where thermal performance has been sensitively improved. The end gable Photovoltaic panels make a bold statement but one that has been successfully detailed with considerable care. Control of internal air quality, passive solar gain and shading, support of biodiversity, surface water attenuation and low-carbon travel, all form part of this modest project – but never at the expense of the creation of a beautiful and comfortable modern home and workplace.
