Our deep retrofit of a house in Raynes Park completed this week and the dining area with its vaulted ceiling in oiled ash is a beautiful new addition to the house. The project holistically upgraded the existing building with new insulation and airtightness measures throughout.
Photography: Agnese Sanvito
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Arboreal are working with The National Forest to produce a sustainable design guide for the development of tourist accommodation in the Midlands. We are working with glamping specialists Crown and Canopy to develop ecologically robust design principles that suit a range of types of tourist accommodation from hotels, to timber lodges and canvas structures. The design principles include: zero-carbon holidays, building ethically and sustainably, integrating with nature, health and wellbeing and building in harmony with the forest. The images (left) shows some of our designs that embody these principles.
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Tom is teaching this term at the Architectural Association on the first years' course for Environment and Technical Studies (ETS). Alongside Giles Bruce from A-Zero Architects they are supporting a group of students to investigate and propose architectures of keeping warm and keeping cool.
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