Welcome to Britain's first carbon-neutral Victorian home - Telegraph
Recent examples of green architecture normally bring to mind new-build structures intelligently designed to be as energy-efficient as possible – positioned to face exactly south to maximise solar gain, for example, and excellently insulated to minimise heat loss. But an even more environmentally friendly – and logical – solution is to convert an existing house into a carbon-neutral building.
The architect John Christophers has done exactly that. His ultra-experimental project is found in an unlikely spot: Balsall Heath, a quiet, seemingly traditional suburb of Birmingham with solidly Victorian redbrick houses that nevertheless has a vibrant, multicultural community.
This family home, where Christophers lives with his wife, Jo, a midwife, and their six-year-old son, Theo, is Britain’s first inhabited, retro-fitted house – an existing building upgraded to make it more energy-efficient and, in this case, totally carbon-neutral. It uses absolutely no fossil fuels.
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