Futurehomes Passivhaus

Passivhaus

While designing the Futurehomes, we sought to challenge the Passivhaus aesthetic. We already had experience of designing Passivhaus buildings. Gerard Maccreanor’s own Rotterdam home, the highly praised zero carbon Hoflaan House and our Rainham scheme, one of the first 100% affordable Passivhaus certified schemes in the UK.

We wanted the townhouses to be sympathetic to the existing Victorian bay fronted townhouses situated directly opposite. Therefore, the Futurehomes employ projecting chamfered bay windows of reconstituted stone on the ground floor and tall shuttered windows in deep brick recesses on the upper levels.

The terrace of fifteen Futurehomes sit within the Elephant Park masterplan. The masterplan aims to be a climate positive development and is one of 17 founding projects from across the world to be part of the Climate Positive Development Program, set-up by the C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group.

The program challenges the world’s greenest major urban regeneration projects to become models for large-scale cityscapes of the future. The masterplan was the third of these 17 projects to reach ‘participant’ status, after submitting a comprehensive roadmap demonstrating how the project will be Climate Positive, or net carbon negative, by 2025.