Eco House

The practice was appointed to design an innovative, low energy, eco house in the gorunds of an existing Victorian villa in Currie, Edinburgh.

The house is super-insulated, air-tight, minimises cold-bridging and incorporates a sensible mix of renewables. The house is compact to minimise heat loss. For efficiency, spaces with passive design principles reduce demand and low-carbon renewable sources supply residual demand. Solar photovoltaics were chosen over solar thermal (hot water) panels as these are better suited to a single-person household with very low and intermittent hot water requirement.