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Sustainable housing should meet the needs of current users without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. We have been developing our own approach to sustainable housing focusing on durability and anticipating future change. By creating long-life and loose-fit house plans we can improve customer choice allowing people to stay in their homes as their circumstances chance.

Furthermore we are developing ways of using computation design to improve efficiencies in the way we design housing. Developing bespoke and powerful design software allows us to automatically generate results by way of drawings, models and spreadsheets. This approach can save considerable time when developing solutions as well as allowing the potential for housing design automation, optimising commercial net to gross area, masterplanning massing options, elevation automation and car parking configurations. 
 

Party Wall

The Party Wall project provides enabling infrastructure for housing, allowing customers to create their own house within set parameters. It aims to provide self builders with the opportunity to build housing at a density required by PPS3 and achieve economies of scale through the efficient use of land.  It offers serviced plots and party walls. The walls establish the urban form of a development and can be planned as terraces, rows or mews of houses. Parameters for the detailed design of housing would be negotiated with individual local authorities and could be subject to an agreed set of design codes.

A Home to Grow

A house type designed to allow owners to extend their property as their circumstances change. The layout allows extra living space, a conservatory or extra bedrooms to be added over time. Alternatively, the consistent plot dimensions allow for a developer to change a scheme's unit mix as it progresses without affecting the masterplan.