Construction Manager reports on the ‘Natural House’: “A back-to-basics house which could become a template for volume housebuilders”

12 February 2010 – Construction Manager – Article

“It remains recognisably a house,” was how Prince Charles goaded the nation’s architects at the RIBA last summer. “It doesn’t wear its ‘green-ness’ as if it is the latest piece of haute couture. It is much more concerned with what works on the High Street in terms of good manners and courtesy.” As designed by the Prince’s Foundation, the project presents itself as a pair of sedate suburban semis. A closer inspection reveals that the project is actually a three-storey town house on one side, and a ground-floor flat topped by a duplex apartment on the other.

As part of this unassuming spirit that sets it apart from its neighbours, the building is claimed by the Foundation to offer “a simple, low-tech and easy-to-build alternative for volume housebuilders seeking to meet increasingly stringent low-carbon targets for new homes.  READ ON »