Carrowbreck Meadow proves Passivhaus can still be achieved with a rustic architecture within a rural setting
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Entered by Hamson Barron Smith
Carrowbreck Meadow is the largest Passivhaus scheme in Greater Norwich and one of the biggest in eastern England. Sheltering in a wooded clearing in a thick forest, its pitched roofs and clapboard cladding are significant because they prove that Passivhaus can still be achieved with a rustic architecture, within a rural setting.
The scheme is also significant for its contractual methodology, which included training for workers and apprentices to deliver the cultural shift in approach required to embrace Passivhaus principles. The judges said that this was a 鈥渢ruly lovely site鈥� and described it as 鈥渧ery contemporary and swish and thoroughly deserving of recognition鈥�.
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