At SKA we have been integrating a host of approaches to the design of low carbon, sustainable homes for over 2 decades & in the last 12 months have developed many new, innovative eco-homes (with several schemes currently on site) which have pushed the boundaries of how sustainable a modern family home can be.
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Chilterns Oak House, an off-grid passive eco-home.
5 Steps to an Off-grid Eco-home
The dream of a home with no running costs, no energy from the grid but instead generating energy profit may seem to of reach to most, but at Samuel Kendall Associates this is a dream we have realised many times through careful passive solar design, innovative renewable energy systems and a holistic understanding of what makes sustainable architecture.
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Designing the perfect home office
With many of us now working from home in light of the global pandemic the need for a healthy, optimal home-working space has never been more pressing. As an architect’s practice we have been working from home for over 20 years and have designed many bespoke home offices, including our own, building up a wide range of expertise and design principles for creating joyful, enriching workspaces. Here are our top tips for your home workspace.
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Connecting Home and Garden - 7 Ideas
As sustainable architects, a strong connection to nature is at the core of our design thinking and we have developed many techniques to maximise the garden-home relationship.
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Top 7 Sustainable Home Materials
Achieving a sustainable home is no simple task, pairing renewable energy systems with a well orientated, efficiently organised and well-insulated home will not ensure your home is sustainable, how much energy was used in that concrete slab or those blockwork walls? To make a sustainable home you must use sustainable materials.
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The Sustainable, Free Energy Home
Through careful passive solar design & renewable technologies, this house extension on the edge of Hornsea Mere achieves a sustainable, tranquil lifestyle with no running cost - the building actually generates a profit in surplus energy.
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Passive Solar Design Guide UK
At Samuel Kendall, we specialise in passive solar homes which take full advantage of their setting, climate, materials and family lifestyle to achieve the healthiest living conditions for the modern family whilst minimising the home’s heating costs.
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Small But Mighty - A guide to compact projects
A great project does not depend on its scale but on the quality of its design. Through compact, careful architecture you can radically enhance the enjoyment & quality of your existing home at a far lowering financial & environmental cost.
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Sustainable Strategies for Eco-Friendly Extensions
Our most common architectural project begins with an existing home that cannot meet the spatial, environmental or performative needs of the modern family.
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Pragmatic Sustainability
The 21st century presents us with the fact that the building industry is responsible for 39% of global carbon dioxide emissions. An immediate sustainable solution is to stop building new buildings with virgin materials & instead focus on restoring, upgrading & reclaiming the existing buildings and materials we already have.
At Samuel Kendall we have spent over two decades practising a pragmatic approach to eco-friendly building, lowering both the environmental and financial cost of architecture. We believe through following these ideas architecture can play its part in creating a sustainable future.
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Achieving the perfect eco-home
At Samuel Kendall we constantly aim to refine our design approach to create the most eco-friendly, cost effective & delightful family homes. We believe the perfect eco-home can be achieved through three key strategies. Spatial, Thermal & Air.
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