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Self-build House Design – Tailored Architecture
How to realise your dream self-build home.
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Looking to self-build we can help.
Wherever you are in your self-build journey we can help to design your dream energy-efficient comfortable home. Whether you already have a site or looking for the perfect spot we can assist you in realising the perfect home from those first stages to completion.
Self-building is an effective way of constructing your home your way. Options are varied from custom-build turnkey solutions to self-managed construction. With all projects, the initial stages are the most important to establish and influence sustainability goals and those delightful architectural moments to make it truly yours.
As an experienced architect and certified Passive House designer, we guide you through the design process from the initial site appraisals for one you already own or you are looking at purchasing, feasibility and sustainable design studies, energy-efficient home design from conception to completion, obtaining planning consent, to detailed technical design and construction phase contract management. Throughout the design process, we manage a fully tailored design team ranging from Structural Engineers and Landscape Architects to Ecologists to realise the potential of your site and aspirations.
Thinking of self-building we are here to assist in your journey. Contact us for a no-obligation initial discussion.
Project Spotlight
New House Farm
Low-energy Passive House – South Cambridgeshire
Agricultural form and materials, contemporary timeless aesthetics, modern living.
Conceived as a low-energy contemporary barn-style home, New House Farm, fuses the traditions of agricultural form and contemporary timeless aesthetics. Effortlessly blending into the landscape forming the backdrop to modern life. Tailored Architecture has deployed the principles of Passive House and low-carbon technologies establishing a home for an environmental future.
Predicted Space Heating Cost
£37 per month*
See project Energy Metrics for further information
Project Spotlight
New House Farm
Low-energy Passive House – South Cambridgeshire
Agricultural form and materials, contemporary timeless aesthetics, modern living.
Conceived as a low-energy contemporary barn-style home, New House Farm, fuses the traditions of agricultural form and contemporary timeless aesthetics. Effortlessly blending into the landscape forming the backdrop to modern life. Tailored Architecture has deployed the principles of Passive House and low-carbon technologies establishing a home for an environmental future.
Predicted Space Heating Cost
£37 per month*
See project Energy Metrics for further information
How we use low-energy and Passive House principles to design your self-build home?
Sustainability is the bedrock of Tailored Architecture’s design, construction, and development process.
We adopted these six design principles, derived from Passive House, in every project we undertake to deliver energy-efficient and light-touch environmental homes.
Building form
Building form is always derived directly from the site context, with considerations taken to minimise the overall surface area of the thermal envelope. A dense and efficient form and massing reduces the heat loss minimising the required heat demand and emissions.
Solar access
Solar gains are considered to maximise the winter warmth available reducing overall heat demand. Careful design of window openings and potential solar shading in the form of sliding screens and horizontal canopies will be deployed to reduce risks of overheating in summer. Natural ventilation will be use for summer time cooling avoiding the use of mechanical comfort cooling.
Fabric first
All buildings are designed with enhanced building fabric to lower the required heating demand, also coupled with airtightness to further reduce heat losses. This allows for a smaller heating plant to be installed reducing overall emissions.
Embodied carbon
Materials and construction methods where possible will be chosen to limit their embodied carbon emissions.
Low carbon heating systems and renewable technologies
Enhanced building fabric and careful inclusion of controlled solar access allows for the installation and operation of an low-carbon heating systems for example heat-pumps. This will reduce the overall heating impact of the proposed dwelling. Battery storage is to be considered to provide electrical storage reducing the impact of peak energy use.
Deconstruction and re-use
Consideration of the materials and construction methods used to allow for deconstruction and reuse in their current form. Reducing the disposal element of construction and energy intensive recycling processes.