Housing for Local People, Crickhowell, Powys

A housing development for local people in a market town in rural Wales. The scheme consists of four flats and twenty houses, these being a mix of 2,3 and 4 bedroom units. We were involved from identifying the site through to construction and were therefore able to introduce elements of our design philosophy. These being design that avoids local vernacular mimicry and sustainability. The scheme is heated by ground source boreholes to a seperate building that contains the heat exchangers. From here the hot water is metered and piped to the dwellings which have underfloor heating. This scheme took too long to become reality and serve its real purpose of serving the needs of local people, to this end we are now actively involved in creating a framework to streamline this process