The Sunday Telepraph featured an article on our proposal for an eco house in the picturesque location of Buckinghamshire which commented on the low energy design. Troy house is a proposal for a house on a piece of promontory land overlooking a lake, which was formely a gravel pit in the Metropolitan Green Belt area. The site is located 300m from the nearest house, so the occupants can enjoy complete seclusion. Currently, the site is shielded from veiw of the lake by Poplar trees, but they are to be felled due to disease. This generated the design in a half crescent shape, so all habitable rooms are opened up to the lake and the mass of bird life. The unusual form has 2 bedrooms at either end of the plan and central living accommodation that reflects the client’s wish to have the building used as holiday accommodation for their daughters and grandchildren when they come over from the Middle East to escape the heat.

Our entry for the BRE Passivhaus competition has been selected to go through to the final stages. The concept is to create a simple form with a glazed, south-facing facade, incorporating solar shading devices to capture and control solar gains, which produces a bright and comfortable internal environment.

This week the office has been freshed up and a new space has been created! Matt and Manju are part of the PDS team generating new ideas for passivhaus.

We spoke to leading architect and passive house champion Roland Matzig, founder of r-m-p architects, about the future of passive house construction. Read more »

PDS had a stand at Ecobuild 2011 that ran from 1st to 3rd March at London’s ExCel centre. The fair was extremely well attended and the company met numerous people with an interest in Passivhaus buildings and had a lively exchange of views. Read more »

House for a private client in Maudach, Germany.

This three bedroom family house, has been designed with a home office on the first floor with its own entrance. The client brief called for the office to be capable of being used as a separate flat over time to separately house the growing family.

r-m-p architeken a German Passivhaus designer working in collaboration with PDS and Chambers Goodwin and Partners were asked to provide a low energy solution for the build. Read more »

The International Passivhaus Association provides an excellent online resource in English and German on Passive House themes. The content ranges from simple articles of a non-technical nature to highly technical documents for professionals in the construction industry.

See www.passipedia.de for further information.

The following provides a link to a recent article published by iPHM and written and edited by Tam Berkovitz.

Worth Looking at What is a Passive House?

Terry Haigh – Passivhaus Design Solutions Ltd

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