Future-proof House Ideas Competition
The Challenge
The competition was launched by Brighton & Hove City Council to generate concept design ideas for a flexible ‘future-proof’ house that can be adapted to suit a wide range of social and geographic contexts for a small brownfield site in Brighton.
Our approach
The key concept for this design was the creative use of light and space to make the home feel spacious even while achieving plot efficiency through a compact floor-plan. This was done through large well-placed windows, connection to outside space, an open-plan living area and the optional potential to easily and cost-effectively expand into the roof space to give further accommodation and flexibility.
Sustainable features
The house design can be adapted to suit people of different life-stages, such as young professionals with a house-share, a family or a mature couple which could convert one bedroom into a home office, studio or library. Accompanying this flexibility of use over the building’s life, the design takes future environmental sustainability into account by using natural materials such as FSC timber, natural insulation, an air-tight building fabric, solar panels, low-flow taps and the potential for passive solar, depending on the orientation.
“Mark came up with a wonderful design which maximises the natural attributes of our rural site”
Geoff & Gail Aucock
“Mark came up with a wonderful design which maximises the natural attributes of our rural site”
Geoff & Gail Aucock
“Mark came up with a wonderful design which maximises the natural attributes of our rural site”
Geoff & Gail Aucock
01273 204065
info@koruarchitects.co.uk
Studio 221, 91 Western Road,
Brighton and Hove, BN1 2NW
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