The Home for All Seasons

Project type:	Competition Entry
Client:	Sunday Times British Homes Awards
Stage:	Competition

The Home For All Seasons is the winning entry to the 2016 Sunday Times British Homes Awards Resilient Homes design competition, by JTP and The Environmental Design Studio (TEDS).

See the dedicated project website and keep up to date with all the latest news: www.thehomeforallseasons.com

The concept responds to the growing need for an approach of resilience, rather than resistance, to extreme weather conditions, and provides an innovative yet viable design solution to this increasingly relevant issue.

The design employs a holistic approach of resilience that addresses extreme weather conditions as well as social and economic uncertainties, providing an innovative yet viable design solution to both the housing and climate change crises.

JTP and TEDS are now working with BRE and several other collaborators to explore opportunities to take the design forwards to construction.

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The design for A Home for All Seasons combines resilience with placemaking. It creates an attractive streetscape, while providing a comprehensive response to future environmental challenges.

Judge's Comment, British Homes Awards

Project Delivery

‘Light touch’ ground floor allows water to pass through without displacing it to another location, making it suitable for upper, middle and lower catchment areas
Habitable rooms are elevated to first-floor and above avoiding the need for temporary add-on measures for flood protection and reducing recovery time post flood
Resilient ground floor ‘garden room’ zone is a multiuse space that can be quickly adapted and cleaned post flood
Utilities and services run within first floor ‘causeway’ to ensure continuity of provision during an extreme weather event
Elevated causeway is heated by services beneath, melting any snow and ice to maintain safe accessibility
Residents are warned of approaching floods by an integrated smartphone app, enabling them to move their cars to designated safe spaces on nearby higher ground
Adjustable solar shades prevent summer overheating but enable passive solar gain in winter
Pitched roofs with flexible orientation are designed to support on-site energy generation, to allow the home to adapt to rising energy costs
Versatile floorplan allows for extra rooms to be added making the home resilient to the changing demands of its inhabitants
Building typology can be adapted to create a diverse range of dwelling sizes and configurations enabling varied and diverse street design and neighbourhoods