Outhouse, a monolithic 5,000 sq ft concrete house in Brockweir, Gloucestershire. Highly energy efficient and air-tight, with whole-house ventilation via a ground source heat pump, solar thermal and photovoltaic panels, and a green roof, Outhouse has been described by the Architects’ Journal as ‘one of the most outstanding new houses in Britain in a decade’.
But those who like their country homes traditional may feel otherwise – and idiosyncratic architecture is always harder to sell.
Hill comments, though, that being forward-thinking about energy-efficiency tends to go hand in hand with being progressive-minded about design too, “even if contemporary architecture wasn’t something they had particularly engaged with before – perhaps like the.
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