This document discusses rethinking housing to improve sustainability, quality, and affordability. It proposes building homes to Passivhaus energy standards to reduce heating costs to £50 per year. Homes would be of high design quality through a rigorous construction process. The goal is to make high-quality, sustainable housing affordable for ordinary people through strategies like rethinking house and site design and the construction process. The vision is for entire communities built to these standards to transform UK housing.

1. Rethinking Housing
Jonathan Hines
Architype and ArchiHaus

2. Architype purpose:
to design life enhancing
genuinely sustainable architecture

13. Stroud Cohousing

20. ArchiHaus purpose:
to transform the quality and
sustainability of UK housing

21. The housing challenge
• much new housing is of poor design quality
• built to very poor energy standards
• suburban and uninspiring in layout
• lacking in any sense of community and place

23. Our vision
• higher standard of sustainability
• better quality of design and construction
• at a price that is affordable
• i.e. at the same price as developers
• address skills, training and employment

24. Our target
• Passivhaus as standard
 heating costs reduced to £50/year
• quality as standard
– quality assured construction process
• affordability as standard
– i.e. for ordinary people not luxury market

25. What is Passivhaus ?
• a rigorous energy standard
• a rigorous comfort standard
• a rigorous evidence based standard
• a rigorous quality assurance standard

26. Our strategy
• to rethink the design of the house
• to rethink the design of the site
• to rethink the process of construction

27. the process of construction

31. the design of the site

32. Kingstone
• Jan: 3rd community workshop
N
Hay
Ross
Hereford
Abergavenny

33. Kingstone
• Jan: 3rd community workshop
N

34. Community consultation

35. Community consultation

36. N

39. N

40. NConnection with the landscape

41. Rural lanes

42. Sustainable drainage

43. Hedgerow boundaries

45. Shared green spaces

46. Cycle path connecting the village
Surgery
Schools
New crossing
Shop, pub, church etc

47. Natural play & outdoor gym

48. Allotments & community orchards

50. Small clusters of houses N

53. design of the house

54. Herefordshire Vernacular

55. Passivhaus optimisation

56. Improving the layout
N

57. Improving the layout
N

58. Flexible and spacious plans

59. Flexible and open plan living

60. Light airy rooms and views

61. Generous spaces & open ceilings

62. ArchiHaus house types

63. Herefordshire Vernacular

64. Herefordshire Vernacular

65. New vernacular

66. New vernacular

67. Planning
Received strong recommendation for approval from officers:
“This is an innovative development proposal that is a radical and
positive departure from conventional modern housing
developments.
The development will also maintain and enhance the vitality and
harmony of the community.
The environmental sustainability of the buildings in particular is
exemplar and would set the benchmark for other developments
both within the county and elsewhere to follow.”

68. • Passivhaus as standard
 actual heating costs reduced to £50/year
• quality as standard
– quality assured design and construction process
• affordability as standard
– for ordinary people not the high end market
• employment as standard
– creating jobs, training and skills