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How eco can you go? The house becomes one with the land
It’s just one week now until the Baufritz construction team start assembling our eagerly anticipated low carbon timber framed house and guest accommodation here in Lewes. The Sky House Sussex site was humming with activity today as the finishing touches to the slab (damp coursing and extra thick ground level insulation) were made by Joe […]
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Nearly ready for D-Day: Grand Designs eat your heart out
St. George’s Day 2014 and the bluebells are blooming. It is extraordinary to think we are now less than two weeks from seeing our eco house and guest accommodation assembled on site over a matter of days. This has been four years in the making! We first saw the plot back in 2010 since when […]
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Shaping up nicely: preparing for foundations
We now have a fantastic impression of the size and shape of the house from the shuttering which Joe and team have constructed. This ‘wooden box’ around the footprint will house the foundations. Because the house will be earth-sheltered and sunk down so far below the original ground level, Joe’s challenge is to make a […]
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Spring has sprung and we’re feeling artistic
We have felt the creative juices flowing this week and we put it down to the lovely spring weather we’re enjoying. After a short lull on site, as we sweated profusely to finalise the technical drawings with Baufritz, the building action has started up again. During Operation Escarpment, Joe, Amy and the groundwork team created […]
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Solar-power GoPro creates groundworks in a flash
Do you think it’s desirable, or even possible, to be green and hi-tech on an everyday basis? As the name of our blog implies, the aim of our project is to find greener ways to live and build. Through our build choices, we hope to show readers and visitors to Sky House Sussex that ‘green’ […]
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Digging the earth sheltered house, man
These photos will hopefully give you a clear picture of exactly what we mean by ‘earth-sheltered house’. This is one of many exciting design features of Sky House Sussex: the lower (or ground) floor of the new house will be built two metres down into the hillside. As visitors arrive at the entrance to the […]