We are happy to announce our project for a new sustainable family home near Bridlington, East Yorkshire has received full planning permission.
A unique material palette of chalk, whitewashed brick and slates.
East Yorkshire Passivhaus dismantles a disused Post Office cottage, reusing its distinctive materials of Wolds chalk, whitewashed brick and slate to create a unique eco-home celebrating its village heritage.
A timber structure, masonry material reclaimed from the site, high-performance insulation and passive solar strategies help keep this home’s carbon footprint to a minimum. The project aims to meet the Passivhaus standard.
Our project began with the dream that a home once full of family memories, childhood holidays and the joy of connecting to nature could come to life again, creating a tranquil family home, kind to the environment and celebratory of its village heritage.
Once the post office cottage to the village of Carnaby on the edge of Bridlington, this site has been empty for several years.
The existing cottage was in a poor condition and could not meet the complex needs of a multi-generational modern family. We have taken the careful approach to dismantling the cottage, keeping its unique masonry skin of local Wolds chalk and whitewashed brick and reusing it in the new house, lowering the embodied carbon of the project, keeping the home’s local material character and significantly lowering the material cost of the project.
A central thermal spine of natural stone provides the base for a feature timber staircase recalling the intricate cabinetry of the post office in its heyday.
This home is made with the ambition of being highly sustainable, with close attention paid to its low carbon timber structure, passive solar design strategies and renewable energy systems vital to achieving an eco-friendly home meeting the Passivhaus standard.
The house is arranged to maximise its relationship to a verdant, expansive garden and bring natural light into the home. A central, double-height living space creates the optimal conditions for stack effect ventilation to naturally ventilate the home.
A unique challenge of this project was to create a tranquil garden oasis to the south with a busy and loud road to the north. Our design is organised to act as an acoustic buffer to the busy road, stretching across the north boundary of the site.
A ground floor finish of terrazzo and a central natural stone chimney create significant thermal mass in the home, stabilising internal temperatures and lowering the home’s reliance on artificial heating.
Renewable systems including an Ecodan air source heat pump, a mechanical ventilation heat recovery system and battery storage remove the home’s reliance on fossil fuel energy whilst achieving the healthiest internal environment for the family.
As the UK continues to experience record summer temperatures and move from a temperate northern European climate to a climate similar to the south of France we believe all new home’s must pay close attention to the dangers of overheating, integrating solutions into their design to minimise costs incurred in the future.
This project integrates a perforated aluminium canopy across its south-facing elevation, shading the interior from the high angles of summer sun whilst permitting low winter sun to harvest solar heat in the colder months. Bi-folding doors and a south-facing veranda allow family life to seamlessly flow out into the garden, dissolving the boundary between inside and outside.
