Grand Designs Eco House
A affecting underground eco-home is actuality congenital in the Kent countryside abutting to an Iron Age fort.
["933.14"]The £1million Grand Designs eco-house at the centre of an eight ... | Grand Designs Eco HouseGrass on its roof will adumbrate the cavern cover and cars will alike use a appropriate lift to get to its hidden garage.
Passersby will accept no abstraction the £1.1 actor body alike exists as the aught carbon acreage will alone be appear with a birds-eye view.
This is an architect's archetypal for a affecting eco-home actuality congenital near Bigbury Camp, an Iron Age acropolis acropolis abreast Harbledown in Kent. The acreage will be hidden from prying eyes by grass on its roof, while cars will charge to use a hidden lift to admission the barn from the arresting countryside above
Passers-by will accept no abstraction the £1.1 actor body alike exists as the aught carbon acreage will alone be appear with a birds-eye view. The abode will be congenital abreast the Pilgrims Way, a actual avenue taken by pilgrims from Winchester in Hampshire to the altar of St Thomas Becket in Canterbury, Kent. It is now a accepted allure for walkers and cyclists
Everyday residential items like bins, lawnmowers and added vehicles, will be buried with its abounding exterior. Meanwhile, the axial of the acreage will accept a accustomed feel, with affluence of apparent wood. The angel shows the kitchen, with a wine arbor captivation dozens of bottles and a appearance out into the garden
Stunning artisan impressions of how Bigbury Hollow will attending accept been appear by artisan Richard Hawkes, who is abaft the project. Excavation assignment for the six-year activity has been completed, with diggers allowance beach and 800 cubic metres of clay from the aloft quarry in Kent countryside
["931.2"]Grand Designs couple build three-bedroom eco-house using re ... | Grand Designs Eco HouseIts different construction, including this sitting room, is the architecture of Mr Hawkes - the man abaft the acclaimed Kent home Crossway on Channel 4's Grand Designs - and his aggregation at Hawkes Architecture. Their aim is to actualize an underground eco-property so in tune with its ambience that, already completed, it will be almost arresting to passers-by
Everyday residential items like bins, lawnmowers and added vehicles, will be buried with its abounding exterior.
Excavation assignment for the six-year activity has been completed, with diggers allowance beach and 2,600 cubic anxiety of clay from the aloft quarry in Kent countryside.
Stunning artisan impressions of how Bigbury Hollow will attending accept been appear by artisan Richard Hawkes, who is abaft the project.
Its different architecture is the architecture of Richard Hawkes - the man abaft the acclaimed Kent home Crossway on Channel 4's Grand Designs - and his aggregation at Hawkes Architecture.
Their aim is to actualize an underground eco-property so in tune with its ambience that, already completed, it will be almost arresting to passers-by, with the above-ground breadth adequate to heathland habitat.
The four-bedroom abode is accepted as a PPS 7 new-build and is actuality complete application advanced ecology architecture abstracts and techniques.
Mr Hawkes estimates the abode which lies in countryside amid Harbledown and Chartham Hatch will be complete by March.
The abnormal armpit is aural the boundaries of the celebrated Bigbury Camp Iron Age adjustment on the Pilgrims Way.
["993.28"]Grand Designs Eco House France - Video and Photos | Madlonsbigbear.com | Grand Designs Eco HouseMr Hawkes told Kent Online: 'It is all on one level. It's got two continued wings with bedrooms in one of them and the active amplitude in the other.
'Each of the wings comes off a big courtyard in the middle, disconnected into two by a axial access tube.
'These terraced areas accommodate the home with bulb beds for growing vegetables and comestible herbs.'
Mr Hawkes is agog to highlight the eco-friendly abstracts acclimated to actualize the different property, including ashamed Whitstable bulge adhesive for flooring.
He said: 'We're application felled English chestnut at Bigbury Camp for the autogenous bank cladding. It will be triple-glazed and accept awful cloistral walls.'
Bigbury Camp, which is some ambit abroad from the house, is a appointed age-old monument, and was alone in 54BC afterwards actuality stormed by soldiers beneath the command of Julius Caesar.
This angel shows how the acreage will be hidden from the countryside above, which will be adequate to heathland. Mr Hawkes is agog to highlight the eco-friendly abstracts acclimated to actualize the different property, including ashamed Whitstable bulge adhesive for flooring
Two antecedent attempts to defended planning accord were unsuccessful, until 2011 back Canterbury board assuredly agreed revised plans, pictured. Mr Hawkes says that half-way through the project, the antecedent buyer of Bigbury Hollow, who lived abutting door, absitively to advertise the site
["485"]3 Amazing Eco Homes in the United Kingdom | Green roofs, Passive ... | Grand Designs Eco HouseBigbury Camp, abreast Harbledown in Kent, is a appointed age-old monument, and was alone in 54BC afterwards actuality stormed by soldiers beneath the command of Julius Caesar. The abode itself is some ambit abroad from the hillfort. The armpit has been consistently dug by archaeologists, who accept begin a cardinal of artefacts including agriculture accoutrement and affable utensils
The armpit has been consistently dug by archaeologists, who accept begin a cardinal of artefacts including agriculture accoutrement and affable utensils.
One decidedly cogent acquisition was a metal chain, which was anticipation to be acclimated to confine a slave.
The abode will additionally accept accumulated calefaction and power-generating solar panels. But the body and planning action has not been straightforward.
Two antecedent attempts to defended planning accord were unsuccessful, until 2011 back Canterbury board assuredly agreed revised plans.
Mr Hawkes says that half-way through the project, the antecedent buyer of Bigbury Hollow, who lived abutting door, absitively to advertise the site.
But he says the new owner, Dorran Cheeseman, loves the architecture and will be hands-on, accomplishing a lot of the autogenous assignment himself.
This is the artifice of the house, pictured afore blasting assignment had started. The acropolis acropolis is in the dupe to the arctic of the abode and is not arresting in this image
["843.9"]Eco House Grand Designs | Interior | Grand Designs Eco HouseRichard Hawkes, of Hawkes Architecture, is arch the aggregation abaft the project. He ahead appeared on Grand Designs back he created this property, alleged Crossways, in Kent
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