Designed by Richard Hawkes, founder of Hawkes architecture, Crossway is one of the first officially certified Passive houses in the UK. The building explores the uniqueness of 'place' as well as harnessing solar energy to generate all its own electricity and thermal energy.
The building demonstrates how contemporary design can celebrate local materials and crafts and integrate new technologies to produce a highly sustainable building that sits lightly on the Earth
Visit www.hawkesarchitecture.co.uk for more information.
Building the base for the clay oven & housing for the BBQ. Paul also built the arch on our house and did all the brickwork so it’s familiar territory ! We’ve used the laft over bricks to build this base. The bottom of the cooking chamber will use bricks from the chimney of the old bungalow that was here. The oven’s chimney will also be the bungalow’s old chimney !
6 months ago • 4 notesWe’ve finally got round to compiling a blog site to show you what’s going on at Hawkes architecture. Now that there’s a Tumblr app on the iphone it’ll be simple & easy to keep the blog up-to-date. Well that’s the plan anyway ! We hope you enjoy it
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photo taken on 13th September. The roof is finally going green all over. Bit of a scare this summer after a promising greening up in the Spring. Now added a small irrigation system which will help keep some moisture in during the driest spells but i’m pleased to see that it’s finally taking shape ! finally !
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photo taken on 13th September. Spot the irrigation system … Total cost £145 installed & with a digital timer. Why oh why didn’t i do it earlier ? Hey ho, that’s life - at least the roof’s growing properly
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photo taken by Mark Lewis on Monday 26th July 2010 from the biggest tripod i’ve ever seen !
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photo taken by Mark Lewis on Monday 26th July 2010 from the biggest tripod i’ve ever seen !
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photo taken by Mark Lewis on Monday 26th July 2010 from the biggest tripod i’ve ever seen !
1 year ago • 3 notesWe recently decided to get Crossway retrospectively examined, scrutinised & tested through PHPP to see if our house could be certified as one of only a small handful of certified PassivHaus buildings in the UK. I’m chuffed to say that it did pass ! Even more rewarding for me is that it passed without being designed using PHPP software. This demonstrates to me that you can design buildings that are joyous and inspiring as pieces of architecture without the stiff & sterile straight jacket of technical software. It goes to show that there is another way - using experience and collaboration can and has achieved the same results - a PassivHaus certificate (for what it’s worth !)
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photo taken on 27th June 2010. Some photos taken early one morning while the sun is still falling on the north side of the house.
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photo taken on 27th June 2010. The landscaping is settling in well now. Just had a little more turf laid in front of the house.
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photo of the roof taken on 2nd June 2010. Lots of poppys, cornflowers and daisies out in flower at the moment.
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