Eco-refurb on 1930′s Home: Case Study by Lucy Pedler
Our architectural practice, archipeleco, had been designing eco-refurbishment projects for our residential clients for five years when we decided to up sticks and move from London to Bristol. One of the reasons for moving was to be able to carry out an extreme eco-refurbishment on a 1930’s house we had just bought in central Bristol and see how much we could reduce our carbon emissions and general environmental impact as a family. We had proposed some of the more substantial eco-refurbishment measures for our clients but often they did not end up being realised due to various constraints (time, money, planning restrictions) and we wanted to test out these ideas ourselves. Read the rest of this entry »
