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Helping you live more sustainably.
Climate Emergency: A Low Energy House / Eco Chic: Successes & Struggles
1) Climate Emergency: A Low Energy House by Ben Ridley, director: Architecture for London.
A retrofit of an Edwardian House in Muswell Hill that considered both energy in use and embodied energy.
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Ben RidleyDirector of Architecture for LondonArchitecture for Londonhttps://architectureforlondon.com/
Ben Ridley is an architect and director of Architecture for London, award-winning architects dedicated to creating healthy buildings with natural, breathable materials to achieve the highest sustainability and comfort standards, including Passivhaus and Enerphit.
He is also host of one of the MHSG Green Open Homes house tours: a fabulously extended and refurbished Edwardian house in Halliwick Road, N10. The house aims to be an exemplar for the sustainable refurbishment of a typical terraced home in London with a constrained budget – both embodied energy and energy in-use have been considered in dept – and to reveal the original structure of the property and celebrate its modest beauty.
2.) Eco Chic: Successes & Struggles by Jo Edwards, co-director: Edwards-Rensen Architects
Tales of solar, water, sedum, pumps and glass. Successes and struggles with the appetite for, design of, planning permission for, and installation of various solar panels, rainwater harvesting, sedum roofs, heat pumps and higher spec glazing.
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Jo EdwardsB.Arch (1st), dip.Arch, ARB, RIBA III / co-director: Edwards-Rensen ArchitectsEdwards-Rensen Architectshttps://www.edwards-rensen-architects.co.uk/
Jo Edwards runs a two-person practice in Islington with her husband Adrie Rensen. Edwards Rensen Architects (ERA) specialise in high end, design led, ‘Eco Chic’, residential work.
ERA have been published in several national and international design magazines including Grand Designs, RIBA Journal, Wallpaper* and The Times. They were selected for New London Architecture’s Don’t Move Improve exhibition. London Open House invited them to open one of their projects to the public on Open House weekend. They are also on Channel 4’s Extraordinary Extensions.
