@@cnut4563a hmmm maybe, the price was listed as "contractor price" which makes me feel like it doesn't include the land, but likely does include the architect cost.
@@bnelkinChatGPT says it includes only the design and construction expenses. It’s £3k/sqm that’s very expensive for a house that looks very low quality. I guess the custom technics must be a part of it but they could’ve build something with better finishes with that.
In Texas we call these type buildings "barndomeniums" which means it looks like an agricultural out building using inexpensive materials on the outside but it's finished out like a house on the inside. Part barn / part really cool house.
Pretty interesting to see the south facing greenhouse facade and passive ventilation, obviously taken from Earthships and implementing it into a building that's much easier to integrate into a tight city lot.
Love this house (except the accessibility) and love your video. More of this Daniel please. This type of content is perfect to discover and explain architecture. Bravo
I didn't see anything about how the atrium would be shaded in the summer. I imagine the solar gain would be huge if there is nothing to stop the atrium from baking in the sun all day.
Yes, it would be deadly under a high Australian summer sun, but the house is in London, so the stack ventilation is probably sufficient to draw the heat out and cool air from the garden in. The dining area might be a bit bright and exposed in the middle of the day, but the rest of the house should be fine. The rest of the year it would be lovely.
This is a remarkable home. At first I was suspicious but I was quickly convinced of its brilliance. My one critique is with the staircase. The homeowners chose to paint the staircase green. Normally, I would've chosen black but let's go with green. This hue of green isn't correct. This is more of a "puke green" or "prison green." An altogether better green would be "celadon green." Done correctly, celadon green is the most beautiful color of all. A great celadon has a beige putty base with equal parts green and blue, and balanced out with warm grey. A great celadon is confounding, impossible to pin down as to what color it actually is. Most importantly, celadon is super elegant. Celadon has a pulse. It breathes. Celadon is a color best expressed over a thousand years in Chinese porcelain. My other critique about the staircase is with the vertical spindles. They are too thick, again making them feel like prison bars. I would've preferred to use cables, given the staircase a lighter, softer feel and would've better blended into the architecture. Other than the staircase, this is a perfect home. Astonishing.
this was really interesting! I'd seen an article on the build but not understood quite what was so cool about it - and your explanation was great. Would love to see more
That was very interesting. I would instinctively have called it an eyesore because I recoil from something so different stuck in the middle of traditional brick houses. On its own in a field - absolutely fine. But explaining the rationale made me re-think. I’m still not totally sure about it in that environment but it does seem a really interesting and practical design for a new-build conurbation.
So when it's cloudy in the winter (which I'm sure rarely happens in London) there's no sun warming up this house with 0 insulation, and in summer the lowest temperature you'll ever have inside is the ambient temperature. Let me guess, not a single engineer was part of this houses design and the judges were very proud of themselves for picking the "green" option that looks the most "unique".
Please do other videos like this, on a variety of real estate and apartments --- condos in high rises, single family homes, townhomes, etc. I enjoy hearing what you have to say........would be nice to hear more about up-keep and security needed.
I came to ask this as well, wondering what kind of home could be designed using the same materials, but perhaps a smaller scale to make it even more affordable.
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I would be really, really surprised if that house isn't far too hot in summer. I work in a UK building designed with glazed atria and a ducted passive ventilation system. The room I work in has huge south facing glazing. The interior temperature of the building is unbearable for three months of the year, with temperatures regularly reaching into the early 30 degrees C. The open floor plan, and the planting between the building and the polycarb, and the slight overhangs might reduce overheating somewhat here, but I don't think it will solve the problem. There's lots of thermal mass in the floor here which is good if an only if you can stop sunlight getting to it and baking the concrete, meaning there is no relief from the heat even at night. An Islamic riad is traditionally an open courtyard, but this has a huge glass skylight getting direct sun all summer long. The convection effect will not work as a result because even with some openable windows I suspect this will actually heat the shadier areas rather than cool them. Summers in London are now often seeing high 30 and even 40+ degrees C days. I think architects, planner and the construction industry really need to acknolwdge that passive cooling systems are no longer sufficient in the changing climate. Contemporary buildings can perform worse than period properties because they often lack cross-ventilation and high ceilings (not the problem with this building, of course) and are over glazed to the south with short or no overhangs or externall shuttters. Obviously, air conditioning does mean using more energy in the summer, but ultimately a cleaner energy grid should compensate for this. Proposed legislation to set a maximum workplace temperature of 30 degrees C would be great, this will force action to be taken to mitigate over heating. Improved insulation in newbuiltds and retrofitting older buildings is great for efficience and thermal comfort in the winter, but there is a serious problem in summer that needs to be addressed. People are already suffering and even dying during heatwaves and it's not acceptable.
There's a big difference between two-story glazing (or a large window,) and passive solar, which is what this is. The only way the substrate would retain the heat is if the sun was directly on it, which it is in the winter but not in the summer. And this riad is designed the way it is with venting to allow the hot air to escape but also to keep air flowing. It's a brilliant design.
What appears to be a polished concrete ground floor beneath the skylight is in direct sun, concentrated by the glass, all day. some of the skylight windows are designed to open, but as I say I am sceptical this will be sufficient in the frequent heatwaves London gets now. I think it is a lovely house and I hope the owners are very happy and comfortable there. I don't think that these kinds of passive solar designs are going to obviate the need for air conditioning in the UK. @@LaughingInTiny
Love this. Its alwas really interesting and enlightening to understand what goes into these amazing buildings. Discovering what the achitects and developers were thinking about, what were their contraints and how they solve problems and introduced new concepts. Thes types of builds and breakdowns are waay more interesting than "this house costs 10 Billion Dollars " type fo videos. Please do more. Nice one and thanks!!
I think it's interesting to see something new as "how it's always been done" might not always be the best way to do something. Loved the analysis Daniel!
In the video, it looks like the dining table and the living room sofa were nearly situated in the staircase floor. It makes me feel unprotected and unwell. Like a desk in an open plan office.
Here it has been treated to avoid that and extend its life. Once it has lived its lifespan of 20-30 years it will simply be replaced which will be cheap and quick and easy to do
This is really cool. I particularly like the integration of the vegetation into the functionality and purpose of the building. It really brings home the functional uses of a house. I would be interested to know if that cladding really works on its own or if that CLT has any additional treatment to sustain and protect it from environmental damage. And, if not CLT, are there are any reasonable alternatives which are relatively environmentally friendly whilst not being too costly? Or even cheaper?
The Riads are my favorite architecture and Biophilic design is also a must for me. I LOVE this house. I had the same idea, been talking about it for years, but I’m just a lay person. I think the upstairs could use a little more interest.
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Functionality 10/10, aesthetics , there’s ways to improve, maybe a darker translucent façade; and the green railing… must be different options at least for the color. ❤️ Is it cheaper than the average alternative?
I love a lot of things about the home, especially the goals it sets out to achieve. But I am concerned about the plentiful use of plastic in the building process of a house designed to be environmentally friendly, especially because the plastic may turn yellow, and thus many would set some plan to replace the polycarbonate, and what happens then? Will the polycarb be able to survive for a hundred years in good condition as a building block of a house? I can see how it would be good if we are using recycled polycarbonate, i.e. reusing materials that would ALREADY go to damaging our environment, but I just don’t see a world where there won’t be construction of new plastics. I know this was a poorly formulated comment but I would love to hear some other opinions about it, Merry Christmas!🎄
We had freak golf ball sized hail stones come through our polycarbonate roof less than a fortnight after it was fitted. Overall I'm not sure if I agree this house is particularly environmentally friendly.
its possible that the reduction of weight is so drastic that even using new stock polycarb it could still be significantly lower in carbon footprint than equivalent traditional materials. would need to do a pretty detailed analysis to tell either way, but on intuition its probably quite a bit better (going by pure tons of CO2 emitted)
Single use plastic is what’s so bad for the environment since plastic lasts so long. Using plastic as a building material makes far more sense and is an appropriate use for a long lasting material.
This polycarb has been specially treated to increase its lifespan and slow down the yellowing effect. It could last anywhere from 20-30 yers before needing to be replaced. Replacing it will be incredibly cheap and easy to do, with the old panels being able to be recycled and used for a variety of other household items etc.
I would like to see more of these styles of video as having it clearly explains how good design makes it a good home. Would be interesting to hear how other homes are designed to meet different briefs and what makes them so brilliant. I also would like to hear more about climate design as it can be interesting how you can adapt living spaces to it, such as the design of housing in Chandigarh, India, which also harnessed light in a similar way but with brick screens instead
Yes, I thought that!! Those curtains are totally impractical. They would become stained and dirty fairly quickly and the height of them and the volume of fabric would mean immense effort to take them down and clean them. A draught would have them blowing and flapping everywhere. And how are the bulbs changed over the stairwell and high ceilings?Scaffolding? How are the bamboos maintained, trimmed, fed, watered. Is the dead plant debris easily accessible?This is a great idea on papers and Architects will drool over it, but it’s not practical. I notice the trendy practice of not using handrails on the walls. Great for getting walls covered in hand marks.
Tbf, at least in terms of dust, the plants and proper ventilation will help. But I can agree that this, as well as any other fairly big home, would be a pain in the ass to clean which is why I wouldn't be surprised if the family doesnt clean. themselves.
Thanks for your perspective on this. The exterior is pretty ugly to me, and the upstairs hallway seems too industrial. Despite that, super cool house with lots of thought for the long term.
Interesting house, but don’t think it will work where I live (in the middle of the US. The flat roof would be a problem, especially if there’s a heavy snow. Would the polycarbonate withstand a hailstorm? We usually see hail a time or two each summer, and sometimes it’s quite large and destructive (this happened in 2005, and we had to replace our roof and all the east-facing windows). We see temperatures up to 110 degrees F in the summer, and as low as -15 degrees F (last year it was colder!) in the winter. I cannot imagine that it would be comfortable at those extremes.
Thanks for covering architecture in mass media, some things that were missed: 1. "double skin" facades have been used for decades 2. "passive ventilation" doesn't provide enough fresh in most situations (winter or no wind in the summer) 3. I think that it's (sadly) still difficult to get a mortgage on CLT-built homes. Still a useful video in overall though.
What about the summer sun rays coming vertically to hit the plastic ceiling? Does that not contradict the concept of the "fresh" windows with the layer of plants by generating tremendous amounts of heat in the house? Looks pretty much like a greenhouse to me, am I missing something?
London is at a latitude of 51.5 degrees so the maximum sun angle at the Summer solstice is 62 degrees, not vertical. I think the height of the atrium relative to it's width means that the sun's rays won't directly penetrate to the floor, which is where the thermal mass is. Because heat rises and there are opening windows in that roof you'll get a chimney type effect where the heat is vented through the top drawing in cooler air from lower windows, preferably on the North aspect of the ground floor.
This video is pretty cofused about how glass works. Summer heat gain is from the top not the south side. I will guarantee the house is over heating without AC. The stack ventilation will work on days when its not so hot but in mid summer no solar control top is an easy bake oven.
That very much depends on latitude. The maximum sun angle in London never exceeds 62 degrees and the atrium looks to be taller than it's width so the floor, which is where the significant solar mass is, probably doesn't get direct sun. The building also does have a reverse cycle heat pump and solar panels. So on days where there is high solar gain from overhead they can run the AC using the electricity generated.
thank you titch, however as ‘eco friendly’ and ‘cost effective’ and ‘sustainable’ this may be, it’s an ugly shack and an eyesore which doesn’t fit in with the buildings surrounding it. the architects were lucky the council permitted this to be built given its in a conservation area which actually demands for a building to look similar to what’s already there.
I love this house and I didn’t think it was an eye sore at all when I first saw it. I thought it was very beautiful. I think the fact that it’s so low cost, and works so well as a family home and is beautiful and eco friendly to boot is simply a win win situation. I wish this was the norm in house building rather than the exception.
This was wonderful ! pls do more of these videos, its really nice to see how a space is used efficiently serving real functionality rather than just wasting it on luxury. As a plant loving person this house is the ideal house i would like to live in and it definitely deserved the winning 🤍🤍
Glad someone gave us an idea if cost however, as the host was banging on about the cost effectiveness of this or that building material it would have been great if he could have given us some idea of how cost effective this was compared to standard home building materials for a similar sized home or even the same home if say dry wall had bee used rather than all this processed lumber. Cost effective is beginning to sound like sustainable and coming to have no meaning if there are no meaningful real world comparative examples given.
We purchased an 7800 sq ft bow-truss building in Chicago. We hoped to use polycarbonate to create two room structures inside the building envelope but our architect told us it is not to code in Chicago (fire code). He believes it is allowed in other municipalities. But someday hope to incorporate the material for a building design. PS. Apparently, Chicago's history of corruption has impacted what and how materials are used in construction. For example, Chicago went back to using cast-iron for commercial buildings and our architect thinks it is because the union needs more manpower to do install...
PLEASE do more analysis videos like this! I loved it!
Agreed! Btw, this building is far from an eyesore to me.
For anyone wondering- the house was built for £559,000 which is $708,600.
Thanks - was wondering when Daniel said "on a very tight budget"..... then again for London that is a tight budget for a family home!
I think that figure is the land purchase and the construction of the house, not just the construction cost.
@@cnut4563a hmmm maybe, the price was listed as "contractor price" which makes me feel like it doesn't include the land, but likely does include the architect cost.
There is no way that price includes the land in that area of London. Other smaller houses in that area are selling for £775k.
@@bnelkinChatGPT says it includes only the design and construction expenses.
It’s £3k/sqm that’s very expensive for a house that looks very low quality. I guess the custom technics must be a part of it but they could’ve build something with better finishes with that.
In Texas we call these type buildings "barndomeniums" which means it looks like an agricultural out building using inexpensive materials on the outside but it's finished out like a house on the inside. Part barn / part really cool house.
more square footage for a lower cost
Pretty interesting to see the south facing greenhouse facade and passive ventilation, obviously taken from Earthships and implementing it into a building that's much easier to integrate into a tight city lot.
Yes I was thinking the same. Plastic urban earthship except without the self-sustainability.
Wold love to revisit this building in a couple of years to see if it really functions the way they hoped more videos like this please 😀👍😀
Good idea, would be interesting to see if the design worked as planned; and ways to improve it.
Love this house (except the accessibility) and love your video. More of this Daniel please. This type of content is perfect to discover and explain architecture. Bravo
I didn't see anything about how the atrium would be shaded in the summer. I imagine the solar gain would be huge if there is nothing to stop the atrium from baking in the sun all day.
Yes, it would be deadly under a high Australian summer sun, but the house is in London, so the stack ventilation is probably sufficient to draw the heat out and cool air from the garden in. The dining area might be a bit bright and exposed in the middle of the day, but the rest of the house should be fine. The rest of the year it would be lovely.
This is a remarkable home. At first I was suspicious but I was quickly convinced of its brilliance. My one critique is with the staircase. The homeowners chose to paint the staircase green. Normally, I would've chosen black but let's go with green. This hue of green isn't correct. This is more of a "puke green" or "prison green." An altogether better green would be "celadon green." Done correctly, celadon green is the most beautiful color of all. A great celadon has a beige putty base with equal parts green and blue, and balanced out with warm grey. A great celadon is confounding, impossible to pin down as to what color it actually is. Most importantly, celadon is super elegant. Celadon has a pulse. It breathes. Celadon is a color best expressed over a thousand years in Chinese porcelain. My other critique about the staircase is with the vertical spindles. They are too thick, again making them feel like prison bars. I would've preferred to use cables, given the staircase a lighter, softer feel and would've better blended into the architecture. Other than the staircase, this is a perfect home. Astonishing.
this was really interesting! I'd seen an article on the build but not understood quite what was so cool about it - and your explanation was great. Would love to see more
Brilliant content, well presented. Hopefully you do more breakdowns on cost effective sustainable architecture. This video made me a subscriber.
My daughter and I really like listening to your reviews of other people's work.
Thank you!
I saw this featured elsewhere and loved it. Thanks for explaining its features.
Thank you for your detailed explanation of Green House.
Yes, more like this please!!! And also more Architects Redesign series. One of my favoritess of the channel. thank you Daniel ❤ Merry Christmas
That was very interesting. I would instinctively have called it an eyesore because I recoil from something so different stuck in the middle of traditional brick houses. On its own in a field - absolutely fine. But explaining the rationale made me re-think. I’m still not totally sure about it in that environment but it does seem a really interesting and practical design for a new-build conurbation.
So when it's cloudy in the winter (which I'm sure rarely happens in London) there's no sun warming up this house with 0 insulation, and in summer the lowest temperature you'll ever have inside is the ambient temperature.
Let me guess, not a single engineer was part of this houses design and the judges were very proud of themselves for picking the "green" option that looks the most "unique".
Please do other videos like this, on a variety of real estate and apartments --- condos in high rises, single family homes, townhomes, etc. I enjoy hearing what you have to say........would be nice to hear more about up-keep and security needed.
A bit minimalist for my taste but a gorgeous high performing building regardless. What was this "small" budget?
I came to ask this as well, wondering what kind of home could be designed using the same materials, but perhaps a smaller scale to make it even more affordable.
And budget is one thing when building/buying, but something else when we're talking about running costs.
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Amazing. Love your reporting as usual. How about the durability of the polycarbonate panels? Is it a 10 or 100 year cycle (ball park)?
30 years max.
Thank you for this architectural breakdown! It gives me many ideas that are useful.
I would be really, really surprised if that house isn't far too hot in summer. I work in a UK building designed with glazed atria and a ducted passive ventilation system. The room I work in has huge south facing glazing. The interior temperature of the building is unbearable for three months of the year, with temperatures regularly reaching into the early 30 degrees C. The open floor plan, and the planting between the building and the polycarb, and the slight overhangs might reduce overheating somewhat here, but I don't think it will solve the problem. There's lots of thermal mass in the floor here which is good if an only if you can stop sunlight getting to it and baking the concrete, meaning there is no relief from the heat even at night. An Islamic riad is traditionally an open courtyard, but this has a huge glass skylight getting direct sun all summer long. The convection effect will not work as a result because even with some openable windows I suspect this will actually heat the shadier areas rather than cool them.
Summers in London are now often seeing high 30 and even 40+ degrees C days. I think architects, planner and the construction industry really need to acknolwdge that passive cooling systems are no longer sufficient in the changing climate. Contemporary buildings can perform worse than period properties because they often lack cross-ventilation and high ceilings (not the problem with this building, of course) and are over glazed to the south with short or no overhangs or externall shuttters. Obviously, air conditioning does mean using more energy in the summer, but ultimately a cleaner energy grid should compensate for this. Proposed legislation to set a maximum workplace temperature of 30 degrees C would be great, this will force action to be taken to mitigate over heating. Improved insulation in newbuiltds and retrofitting older buildings is great for efficience and thermal comfort in the winter, but there is a serious problem in summer that needs to be addressed. People are already suffering and even dying during heatwaves and it's not acceptable.
It's not made of anything concrete from I know.
Im portuguese, I also have a riad (closed) and house temperatures in the summer are like 22ºC max.
There's a big difference between two-story glazing (or a large window,) and passive solar, which is what this is. The only way the substrate would retain the heat is if the sun was directly on it, which it is in the winter but not in the summer. And this riad is designed the way it is with venting to allow the hot air to escape but also to keep air flowing. It's a brilliant design.
The ground floor looks like a polished concrete slab to me.@@benblarney
What appears to be a polished concrete ground floor beneath the skylight is in direct sun, concentrated by the glass, all day. some of the skylight windows are designed to open, but as I say I am sceptical this will be sufficient in the frequent heatwaves London gets now. I think it is a lovely house and I hope the owners are very happy and comfortable there. I don't think that these kinds of passive solar designs are going to obviate the need for air conditioning in the UK. @@LaughingInTiny
THIS NEEDS SO MUCH MORE VIEWS WTH
Hello, please provide us with more content like this. This is perfect for understanding of interesting building and technology.
Love this. Its alwas really interesting and enlightening to understand what goes into these amazing buildings. Discovering what the achitects and developers were thinking about, what were their contraints and how they solve problems and introduced new concepts. Thes types of builds and breakdowns are waay more interesting than "this house costs 10 Billion Dollars " type fo videos. Please do more. Nice one and thanks!!
I think it's interesting to see something new as "how it's always been done" might not always be the best way to do something. Loved the analysis Daniel!
Love this video! Please do more analysis like this 🤍🤍✨✨
I really like this innovative home. And yes please to more videos like this.
Yes more videos like this one please. That is an amazing price for this house.
I love it! Yes, more please.
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I really enjoyed your breakdown Daniel. More please!
I can see how this is a reinterpretation is made suitable for a warmer, dryer and sunnier London. This has been so interesting to watch
Can't believe it got planning
Thank you Daniel...I find it more attractive than most...solar and thermal are missing...water collection?
Yes please do more like this!
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I appreciate the breakdown and I do agree it's a great house in many ways. It's just an absolute eyesore.
In the video, it looks like the dining table and the living room sofa were nearly situated in the staircase floor. It makes me feel unprotected and unwell. Like a desk in an open plan office.
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Loved it. More please!
Thank you for posting this. Very interesting to see and learn about
I love that house, amazing open space. Yes show me more.
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Loved this and would love to see others like it. Reminds me of Grand Designs, which I love.
Polycarbonate does not age well in the sun. It should yellow like the plastic headlights of an older car that's parked outside.
Interesting thanks for sharing
Here it has been treated to avoid that and extend its life. Once it has lived its lifespan of 20-30 years it will simply be replaced which will be cheap and quick and easy to do
It will be UV stabilised to prevent that. It's used successfully in Australia which has far higher levels of UV than London.
Wow!! How practical - a house that is designed to work with, rather than against, it’s setting
This is really cool. I particularly like the integration of the vegetation into the functionality and purpose of the building. It really brings home the functional uses of a house. I would be interested to know if that cladding really works on its own or if that CLT has any additional treatment to sustain and protect it from environmental damage.
And, if not CLT, are there are any reasonable alternatives which are relatively environmentally friendly whilst not being too costly? Or even cheaper?
Fascinating! Keep them coming...
The Riads are my favorite architecture and Biophilic design is also a must for me. I LOVE this house. I had the same idea, been talking about it for years, but I’m just a lay person. I think the upstairs could use a little more interest.
Functionality 10/10, aesthetics , there’s ways to improve, maybe a darker translucent façade; and the green railing… must be different options at least for the color. ❤️
Is it cheaper than the average alternative?
This was fascinating! Thank you for sharing this award and going through the why's for the home it was awarded to. 🙏
Love it! Thanks for the commentary too :)
Beauiful and very interesting analysis. I would love to see more videos like this in the future
That was a wonderful video!
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Really interesting! Would love more of these types of videos!
I love a lot of things about the home, especially the goals it sets out to achieve. But I am concerned about the plentiful use of plastic in the building process of a house designed to be environmentally friendly, especially because the plastic may turn yellow, and thus many would set some plan to replace the polycarbonate, and what happens then? Will the polycarb be able to survive for a hundred years in good condition as a building block of a house? I can see how it would be good if we are using recycled polycarbonate, i.e. reusing materials that would ALREADY go to damaging our environment, but I just don’t see a world where there won’t be construction of new plastics.
I know this was a poorly formulated comment but I would love to hear some other opinions about it, Merry Christmas!🎄
We had freak golf ball sized hail stones come through our polycarbonate roof less than a fortnight after it was fitted. Overall I'm not sure if I agree this house is particularly environmentally friendly.
its possible that the reduction of weight is so drastic that even using new stock polycarb it could still be significantly lower in carbon footprint than equivalent traditional materials. would need to do a pretty detailed analysis to tell either way, but on intuition its probably quite a bit better (going by pure tons of CO2 emitted)
Single use plastic is what’s so bad for the environment since plastic lasts so long. Using plastic as a building material makes far more sense and is an appropriate use for a long lasting material.
This polycarb has been specially treated to increase its lifespan and slow down the yellowing effect. It could last anywhere from 20-30 yers before needing to be replaced. Replacing it will be incredibly cheap and easy to do, with the old panels being able to be recycled and used for a variety of other household items etc.
I would like to see more of these styles of video as having it clearly explains how good design makes it a good home. Would be interesting to hear how other homes are designed to meet different briefs and what makes them so brilliant. I also would like to hear more about climate design as it can be interesting how you can adapt living spaces to it, such as the design of housing in Chandigarh, India, which also harnessed light in a similar way but with brick screens instead
Loved this review kind of video. More like this pls
Nothing says "we pay other people to clean and maintain our home" like a multistory greenhouse with fifteen foot curtain 'walls' on rails.
Yes, I thought that!! Those curtains are totally impractical. They would become stained and dirty fairly quickly and the height of them and the volume of fabric would mean immense effort to take them down and clean them. A draught would have them blowing and flapping everywhere. And how are the bulbs changed over the stairwell and high ceilings?Scaffolding? How are the bamboos maintained, trimmed, fed, watered. Is the dead plant debris easily accessible?This is a great idea on papers and Architects will drool over it, but it’s not practical. I notice the trendy practice of not using handrails on the walls. Great for getting walls covered in hand marks.
Tbf, at least in terms of dust, the plants and proper ventilation will help. But I can agree that this, as well as any other fairly big home, would be a pain in the ass to clean which is why I wouldn't be surprised if the family doesnt clean. themselves.
this was really interesting. Thanks!
Please do more and add your touch for different IECC climate zones.
This was fantastic, more please!
Thanks for your perspective on this. The exterior is pretty ugly to me, and the upstairs hallway seems too industrial. Despite that, super cool house with lots of thought for the long term.
Interesting house, but don’t think it will work where I live (in the middle of the US. The flat roof would be a problem, especially if there’s a heavy snow. Would the polycarbonate withstand a hailstorm? We usually see hail a time or two each summer, and sometimes it’s quite large and destructive (this happened in 2005, and we had to replace our roof and all the east-facing windows). We see temperatures up to 110 degrees F in the summer, and as low as -15 degrees F (last year it was colder!) in the winter. I cannot imagine that it would be comfortable at those extremes.
Amazing house. Love it
Great analysis. Would love to see more videos like this 🎉
This is an awesome video. Next level. Please do more.
Thanks for covering architecture in mass media, some things that were missed: 1. "double skin" facades have been used for decades 2. "passive ventilation" doesn't provide enough fresh in most situations (winter or no wind in the summer) 3. I think that it's (sadly) still difficult to get a mortgage on CLT-built homes. Still a useful video in overall though.
Perfect! I love building like this, live in one of these would be great!
Very good video. Thanks
Cross laminated timber is timber with glue. Is that really sustainable healthy and recycable?
Thanks for this video. What is the price comparison between CLT and steel of the same size and strength?
Yes please, more.
Thus was awesome, more like this!
What about the summer sun rays coming vertically to hit the plastic ceiling? Does that not contradict the concept of the "fresh" windows with the layer of plants by generating tremendous amounts of heat in the house? Looks pretty much like a greenhouse to me, am I missing something?
London is at a latitude of 51.5 degrees so the maximum sun angle at the Summer solstice is 62 degrees, not vertical. I think the height of the atrium relative to it's width means that the sun's rays won't directly penetrate to the floor, which is where the thermal mass is. Because heat rises and there are opening windows in that roof you'll get a chimney type effect where the heat is vented through the top drawing in cooler air from lower windows, preferably on the North aspect of the ground floor.
Abolutely loved this type of video. Verry informative, interesting and relaxing.
That's an awesome and well-designed house for sure. Would love to live in it.
I’m in love. What a clever design
amazing home....Merry Christmas!
This house is pretty amazing 😮
This video is pretty cofused about how glass works. Summer heat gain is from the top not the south side. I will guarantee the house is over heating without AC. The stack ventilation will work on days when its not so hot but in mid summer no solar control top is an easy bake oven.
That very much depends on latitude. The maximum sun angle in London never exceeds 62 degrees and the atrium looks to be taller than it's width so the floor, which is where the significant solar mass is, probably doesn't get direct sun.
The building also does have a reverse cycle heat pump and solar panels. So on days where there is high solar gain from overhead they can run the AC using the electricity generated.
So plastic is the new eco material? I don't really get it. The plants are cool, though. Interesting video, thanks!
Yes!! More analysis pls
Very interesting. Thanks for your analysis. Nonetheless in the home - at lest from the picture - the coziness is completely missing to me.
thank you titch, however as ‘eco friendly’ and ‘cost effective’ and ‘sustainable’ this may be, it’s an ugly shack and an eyesore which doesn’t fit in with the buildings surrounding it. the architects were lucky the council permitted this to be built given its in a conservation area which actually demands for a building to look similar to what’s already there.
I love this house and I didn’t think it was an eye sore at all when I first saw it. I thought it was very beautiful. I think the fact that it’s so low cost, and works so well as a family home and is beautiful and eco friendly to boot is simply a win win situation. I wish this was the norm in house building rather than the exception.
Yes please 👍 love this content
I love analysis video like this
This was wonderful ! pls do more of these videos, its really nice to see how a space is used efficiently serving real functionality rather than just wasting it on luxury. As a plant loving person this house is the ideal house i would like to live in and it definitely deserved the winning 🤍🤍
1:09 is that an Apple studio display in the background? Did you make the switch? If not, what is it?
Malevich'es black square and some modern art would only compliment this award winning bespoke architectural eloquence of a refined masterpiece!
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I’ll love to see more architectural breakdowns like this, please 🙏
I like all the concepts here; I wonder if it could be translated into a smaller 2/3 bedroom house at a lower total build cost.
Absolutely amazing video, more breakdowns would be great!
This is excellent!
Glad someone gave us an idea if cost however, as the host was banging on about the cost effectiveness of this or that building material it would have been great if he could have given us some idea of how cost effective this was compared to standard home building materials for a similar sized home or even the same home if say dry wall had bee used rather than all this processed lumber. Cost effective is beginning to sound like sustainable and coming to have no meaning if there are no meaningful real world comparative examples given.
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MORE VIDEOS LIKE THIS ONE PLEASE
please more vids like this one!
This was interesting. Yes, I'd like to see more breakdown videos in the future.
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This house is the building version of "s/he has great personality."
We purchased an 7800 sq ft bow-truss building in Chicago. We hoped to use polycarbonate to create two room structures inside the building envelope but our architect told us it is not to code in Chicago (fire code). He believes it is allowed in other municipalities. But someday hope to incorporate the material for a building design. PS. Apparently, Chicago's history of corruption has impacted what and how materials are used in construction. For example, Chicago went back to using cast-iron for commercial buildings and our architect thinks it is because the union needs more manpower to do install...