FREE Green Open Homes house tour

Muswell Hill: architect designed Edwardian retrofit

Presented by: Muswell Hill Sustainability Group

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0	LONDON: Halliwick Rd N10
P	Sunday 17th November, 2024
N	1:45pm

Event information

As part of Muswell Hill Sustainability Group's Green Open Homes season ...

A half-hour tour and Q&A with the architect host, covering a rear extension, loft conversion and refurbishment of an Edwardian house into a comfortable low-energy home, including ...

• Insulating and improving air-tightness
• Triple-glazing
• Masonry nib walls retained at ground floor to avoid energy-intensive steel box frames
• Natural materials including stone, timber and lime plaster, rather than cement-based products
• Rear extension built in highly insulated 172mm SIPS and all existing building elements achieved a Passivhaus standard U-value of 0.15 or better
• An MVHR system provides pre-heated fresh air and filters the incoming air, removing pollen, diesel particulates ad NOx to create a healthy indoor environment
• Awards:
o DMI Environmental Leadership Prize
o AJ Small Projects finalist
o RIBA London Award shortlist

Designed by the house owner and director of Architecture for London, architect Ben Ridley, to reveal the original structure of the property and celebrate its modest beauty; and aiming to be an exemplar for the sustainable refurbishment of a typical terraced home in London with a constrained budget – both embodied energy and energy in-use have been considered in depth.