The Home of 2030 competition was a nationwide design competition, in search of interdisciplinary teams able to offer solutions for providing affordable, healthy, mass housing in line with our government's climate targets set for the year 2030.

Our entry proposed variations on the terraced house, to be adaptable to different site contexts whilst maintaining optimal orientation for passive solar heating, renewable energy production and wind-driven passive ventilation.

Our entry incorporated the prefabricated Ecococon panels to enable production at scale and reduced construction time on site. For the floors we proposed a ‘glasscrete’ recycled foamglas and limecrete screed build up, to be able to offer a zero-cement foundation and floor system.

The main drivers for the scheme were to use almost entirely natural or recycled materials, passive ventilation, and passive design principles to be able to provide mass housing with great consideration for both the climate emergency, and health and wellbeing.

Although our design did not make it onto the second stage of the competition, we were delighted to be included in the final long list of the top 29 entries from the first stage.

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