JTP Architects has unveiled further plans and concepts for their ‘home for all seasons’ as part of the Open City Green Sky Thinking programme.
Following on from their win at the Sunday Times’ British Homes Awards in the resilient home category, the collaboration with the Environmental Design Studio looks at designing a future-proofed home in an era of global warming and short land supply.
In terms of both man-made and natural disasters, flooding comes out top in both potential risk and biggest impact.
With that in mind, the home’s living space is on to the first floor and above. The design is able to provide up to 40 homes per hectare, and can be built to add extra rooms as households and circumstances change over time.
JTP says that the Environment Agency and insurers, such as Aviva, are both encouraging and supportive of the idea. Particularly flood-prone sites in places such as Hebden Bridge in Yorkshire are being seen as possible locations, with the practice looking at developing the scheme themselves.
A proposal such as this could open up more land to redevelopment potential. The Environment Agency even suggested the practice should target local authorities who are failing to meet their housing targets through a lack of land supply, and who have flood plains in accessible locations.
As global warming increases and its impacts worsen, and with extreme weather events on the rise, highly desirable riverside living could well be achievable.
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