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Tag Archives: Homify

HOMIFY PUBLISH LEWES NEW BUILD

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27/06/2017

/ BBM Architects
New build house, Lewes, East Sussex

Project Profile

Client: Private

Responsibilities on project: Lead Architect

Gross floor area: 150m2

Build Rate: £2849.60/m2

U Values: Roof 0.10 // floor 0.11 // walls 0.14


The online home website Homify have published our new build house located in Lewes, East Sussex. The article entitled “Twenty five simple houses out of the ordinary” discusses the modern flat roof design of the project.

The full article can be found here

HOMIFY PUBLISH LEWES NEW BUILD
Leaf Yard is a new-build house situated in Lewes, East Sussex. The House occupies half of a recently divided residential plot and replaces part of an old stable block shared with a neighbouring property. The new house is arranged to with an upper and lower ground floor due to the change of level across the site.

HOMIFY PUBLISH LEWES NEW BUILD
The lower ground floor is effectively single aspect with the rear of the footprint retaining a full storey height. Along with an entrance lobby there is a shower room and wc, a utility room and bedroom/study. Along the long retaining wall is a large cupboard for storing a significant amount of personal effects as the house does not have a loft space.

HOMIFY PUBLISH LEWES NEW BUILD
The upper ground floor has two further bedrooms, both facing east to the long distance views across the valley towards Malling. One of the bedrooms has an en suite bathroom. The kitchen occupies the centre of the upper floor plan with the dining space immediately off towards the garden façade and the upper entrance towards the shared access side of the house. A large cannoned rooflight provides a dramatic source of daylight above the kitchen. The living room has three external walls and three sources of daylight, its main aspect is onto a central courtyard garden.

HOMIFY PUBLISH LEWES NEW BUILD
The house is constructed with an airtight timber frame construction with an external leaf of brickwork. A double timber frame structure was used creating an insulated zone of 225mm inside of the brickwork finish, resulting in a super insulated building fabric with roof u-values of 0.10 // floor 0.11 // walls 0.14. The upper ground floor area features a super insulated floor construction with a polished screed finish, this combined with carefully considered large glazed openings allows for maximum passive solar gain and thermal mass heat storage. The new house also makes use of an MVHR system reclaiming energy from the extracted air of kitchen and wetroom spaces to be re-used to heat bedroom and living spaces.

HOMIFY PUBLISH LEWES NEW BUILD

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HOMIFY FEATURE EAST SUSSEX SUSTAINABLE MASTER PLAN

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23/06/2017

/ BBM Architects
Sustainable master plan in Hadlow Down, East Sussex

Project Profile

Construction Time: 20 months

Completion date: July 2015

Gross floor area: 459m2

Build rate: approx: £3000/m2 (house only)

Contract value: £2.5 million (house and some external works)

Main Contractor: Chalmers & Co. Ltd.

‘U’ Values: Floor 0.12 Wm2/k, Walls 0.12 & 0.15 Wm2/k, Roof 0.14 Wm2/k


The online home website Homify have published our masterplan project located in Hadlow Down, East Sussex. The full feature can be found here

HOMIFY FEATURE EAST SUSSEX SUSTAINABLE MASTER PLAN
BBM were commissioned in 2008 to propose a sustainable master plan for a country estate in East Sussex. Our client wanted us to consider the viability of developing a derelict 1940’s dairy, retrofitting and extending a 1970’s house and a 19th Century Oast House situated next to each other. Working with Studio Engleback, who produced a parallel strategy for the surrounding landscape, the challenge was to create a low energy development from a brief that is traditionally extremely energy hungry, i.e. a new heated swimming pool with steam room and sauna, an external ‘natural pool’, and a high specification country house set in 275 acres of Wealden countryside that includes a lake and 150 acres of standing coppice woodland.

HOMIFY FEATURE EAST SUSSEX SUSTAINABLE MASTER PLAN
BBM & Studio Engleback came up with a low carbon strategy for this normally high carbon programme. It was agreed that local construction materials would be used, that the buildings would be extremely well sealed and insulated, and that a mixture of heavyweight and lightweight materials would be used to make the most of their abilities to store heat or insulate.

HOMIFY FEATURE EAST SUSSEX SUSTAINABLE MASTER PLAN
Our clients’ woodland is also the source of woodchip for the new biomass boiler that provides energy for heating the whole site. Nearby woodlands have also provided timber for cladding the dwelling and pool house inside and out, as well as providing joinery. Waste timber also forms the majority of the external wall and roof insulation. Designing a heated pool house plus sauna and steam room predominately out of timber products was particularly challenging, and we think, successful.

HOMIFY FEATURE EAST SUSSEX SUSTAINABLE MASTER PLAN
Local authority Planners asked that the pool house kept the form and volume of the derelict diary it replaced. However the new house was allowed to be a lot more expressive, responding to its site and orientation, its proximity to the double Oast House that its Northern roof and three story ‘light canon’ begin to emulate. The form of the roof attempts to reconcile the orientation of the building that faces South East: the roof is lifted up and twisted around to face due South allowing solar PV panels to benefit. It also expresses the main entrance of the dwelling viewed from the East, as well as reflecting the form of the neighbouring Oast House beyond. This undulating form is reflected in the first floor ceilings that also express this functionality. This expressive roof form collects rain water for use on the site, harnesses solar energy and controls natural light allowing it to penetrate the centre of the plan to express the treble height of the stair case, the north light over the living room and perhaps most poetically at different times of the day via the light canon over the meditation room.

HOMIFY FEATURE EAST SUSSEX SUSTAINABLE MASTER PLAN
The new house was designed to relate to the surrounding landscape in a number of ways while the pool house is broadly North-South facing with its straight-forward solar and sedum roofs. Each elevation of the house is quite different, responding as it does to orientation to the Sun and major views out towards the lake and beyond, as well as to the need for solar gain in the winter and shading from the Sun in the Summer.

HOMIFY FEATURE EAST SUSSEX SUSTAINABLE MASTER PLAN
It was decided that the main themes of the three projects would be the expressive architectonic form and the material qualities of the internal and external finishes as existing or as specified: a robust simplicity for a working house on a farm.

HOMIFY FEATURE EAST SUSSEX SUSTAINABLE MASTER PLAN
The main house was constructed from 225 solid block work finished internally with either lime plaster or Moroccan Tadelakt, with 150mm of timber fibre board insulation on the outside finished with a chestnut ‘hit & miss’ rain screen or lime render. The main wall separating the meditation room from the entrance hall is made from rammed earth taken from the ground beneath the meditation room. A similar suite of materials is used for the interior of the Pool. The Tadelakt plaster works particularly well in this warm moist atmosphere and was traditionally used in Moroccan bathhouses.

HOMIFY FEATURE EAST SUSSEX SUSTAINABLE MASTER PLAN
The thermal mass of the walls and the polished concrete floors combined with external wall insulation and a sophisticated MVHR systems designed by Battle McCarthy enable the internal environment to be stable and comfortable.

HOMIFY FEATURE EAST SUSSEX SUSTAINABLE MASTER PLAN
This focus on the use of organic materials (that ‘lock’ C02 instead of burning it) from the site and surrounding area, as well as an interest in an architecture that responds to the many opportunities afforded by the location and this collection of buildings and landscapes, continues BBM’s enquiry into ‘Built Ecologies’ (an exhibition at RIBA HQ in 2008): the idea of a contemporary low energy local or regional vernacular born out of the surrounding landscape.

HOMIFY FEATURE EAST SUSSEX SUSTAINABLE MASTER PLAN

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HOMIFY PUBLISH LEWES NEW BUILD HOUSE

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31/05/2017

/ BBM Architects
New build house and garden in place of light industrial unit

Project profile

Client: Private

Architect: BBM Sustainable Design Ltd

Structural Engineer: IE Engineers

Interior Designer: Chalkspace

Landscaping: BBM Sustainable Design Ltd

Contractor: Brian Huntly Builder Ltd

Construction Value: £330k

Total Floor Area: 121m2


“A game changing contemporary home in East Sussex” Homify publish an article on our new build house Priory Barn in Lewes, East Sussex. To read the full article click here.

This new 121m2 three-bedroom, two-storey dwelling replaced a single storey storage structure on an extremely tight and ancient site in Lewes, East Sussex with demanding technical and planning constraints. It was carried out for repeat clients but unlike their previous briefs, this project was carried out as a speculative development and so the financial parameters were also heavily constricted. The result is a very compact design with some innovative features to overcome the front and rear facing overlooking issues and excellent attention to detail. Despite its compactness, it has been complimented for the light and open feel and by making the new footprint smaller than the original, a discrete rear garden space was created. Thanks to the enlightened approach of the Clients, the integrated photovoltaic roof was kept in the build and along with a thermally efficient envelope this should help afford the future occupants something close to cost neutral energy bills and near carbon neutral performance.

HOMIFY PUBLISH LEWES NEW BUILD HOUSE
Because of a long-standing relationship with the Client, the architects were afforded a relatively free-hand in setting the architectural response. This included careful detailing and excellent standards of execution. Notable points include the stair with its combination of metal work and oak joinery, the neatly recessed meter boxes and the routered nameplate formed in the front façade.

HOMIFY PUBLISH LEWES NEW BUILD HOUSE
The Contractors, Brian Huntley Builders should also be commended for the deft handling of neighbours, who were unavoidably effected by the proximity of the build, and the ingenuity they deployed in managing such a tight site compound. In the early stages of the build they also had to carry out excavations with an archaeologist on hand but luckily only minor changes to the substructure were required. Many locally believed a new house on this site was not possible, that something was built here which was remarkable.

HOMIFY PUBLISH LEWES NEW BUILD HOUSE
BBM’s approach to the energy strategy was to exploit the ‘solar aperture’, which for a tight urban plot was surprisingly open. An early decision was to rotate the ridge line 90º to that of the original structure to suit a photovoltaic roof (rated 2.4kW peak). Unusually for a speculative residential project the PV BBM managed to retain an ‘integrated’ system which was far more suited to the visually sensitive setting off Southover High Street. Passive solar gains were also built-in by including generously sized glazing on the southern façade. To protect against overheating the first floor ribbon windows were set back within a deep reveal to catch the low angle winter sun but provide shade from the high angle summer sun. A pergola does a similar job for the ground floor windows.

HOMIFY PUBLISH LEWES NEW BUILD HOUSE
Knowing that this was a speculative project, BBM had to work hard on the external envelope to deliver a thermally efficient solution for a commercially realistic build rate. The following u-values were achieved for the key elements: Ground bearing slab: 0.11 W/m2K, External walls: 0.15 W/m2K and Roof: 0.11 W/m2K.

HOMIFY PUBLISH LEWES NEW BUILD HOUSE
With mains gas available, BBM went with the pragmatic solution of a gas fired condensing boiler with a mechanical ventilation system with heat recovery. A wood-burning stove provides an alternative form of space heating on cold winter days.

HOMIFY PUBLISH LEWES NEW BUILD HOUSE
The materials palette aimed at finding a contemporary language that pertains to the place of Lewes with its famous mix of timber, brick and slate as well as concentrating on the carbon locking potential of timber for the majority of the superstructure. The specification adopted a responsible and pragmatic approach to sourcing and minimising environmental impact.

HOMIFY PUBLISH LEWES NEW BUILD HOUSE

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HOMIFY PUBLISH LEWES ECO BUILD

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03/05/2017

/ BBM Architects
New build eco house, Lewes, East Sussex

Gross Floor Area: 250m2

Contract Value: £460K

Build Rate: £1840/m2 + VAT (including garden)

‘U’ Values: Roof – 0.09W/m2K. Walls – 0.14W/ m2K. Floor – 0.16W/m2K.

Heating source: High-efficiency gas condensing boiler, and solar thermal panels. Solar gain and MVHR system

Carbon Impact: Low-Carbon

Main Contractor: Brian Huntley Builders Ltd


The popular website Homify have published an article featuring our new build eco house situated on Prince Edwards Road in Lewes, East Sussex.

Article entitled: “Twelve unusual home renovations to inspire your next build”

To read the full article follow this link

Homify Eco new build house Prince Edwards Road

We were appointed to design a new low energy family home which is an area we special in. Taking real pleasure in working with clients who had a keen interest in architecture, cutting edge design and the ambition to implement new technologies. The contemporary new-build house replaces a subsidence-ridden dilapidated bungalow which previously stood on the site. In addition to low energy performance the house also had to work aesthetically within a tricky suburban context of unusually high prominence within the historic town of Lewes in East Sussex.

Homify Eco new build house Prince Edwards Road

The new dwelling is wrapped in cedar gap boarding on the West, South and East elevations, with the North elevation and North-facing pitch clad in dark rivened slate. Our intention was to create a home that made best use of the steep topography of the south facing site, while creating an affordable low carbon contemporary home for a family of four. Accessed off the street on the middle of three floors, the entrance storey reveals an unusually long south-facing view across neighbouring gardens. The southern aspect also allowed us to exploit useful solar gain whilst creating sheltered environments as well as links with the landscape.

Homify Eco new build house Prince Edwards Road

The site, at the west end of Prince Edward’s Road in Lewes, is surrounded by houses which illustrate several decades of response and reaction to ecological and environmental design either as recent new builds or refurbishments. Prince Edward’s Road endeavours to advance low energy performance whilst making these technologies more integrated within its architecture and response to context. This is most obviously demonstrated by the roof system of photovoltaic and solar thermal panels and roof lights and the expanses of carefully designed passive solar glazing and shading of the south elevation. We believe the roof is the first of its kind in the UK.

Homify Eco new build house Prince Edwards Road

Prince Edward’s Road demonstrates a 79% reduction in emission when compared with the UK’s average emission, which in real terms meets the UK’s greenhouse gas emissions target of an 80% reduction by 2050. The combination of a fully integrated photovoltaic and solar thermal tiled roof, and a whole house MVHR system (mechanical ventilation with heat recovery) has manifest itself in a very energy efficient dwelling. The design is structurally lightweight, being largely timber framed, but with solid polished concrete floors to give enough thermal mass to stabalise temperatures.

Homify Eco new build house Prince Edwards Road

The building is designed to take areas of high passive solar gain and redistribute the heat elsewhere in the building by way of the MVHR system. The Walls, floors and ceilings are all super-insulated with u-values of: roof u-values of 0.09 // floor 0.16 // walls 0.14. All of the above have contributed to a first years running of £302+vat.

For further details on the property visit the projects profile here.

Homify Eco new build house Prince Edwards Road

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HOMIFY Publish article on Prince Edwards Road

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31/05/2016

/ BBM Architects
HOMIFY – PRINCE EDWARDS ROAD

Homify the popular architecture website have published an article on our new build house based at Prince Edwards Road, Lewes, East Sussex.

The project consists of a new build three storey family home clad in slate and cedar. Homify’s article discusses the energy efficiency of the house with particular attention to the MVHR and solar systems used. 

Click here to access the full article.

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HOMIFY PUBLISH ARTICLE ABOUT NEW HOUSE, HADLOW DOWN

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28/04/2016

/ BBM Architects

Homify have published a great article about our project New House, Hadlow Down, East Sussex. The article discusses the projects modern twist on a classic farm setting.

To find out more please follow the link:

https://www.homify.it/librodelleidee/706286/da-vecchia-fattoria-a-villa-moderna 

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