Yet Reynolds found he couldn't get a loan from his bank to fund construction of the house. It pre-heats the air and delivers it at 22 degrees for the living room and 17 degrees for the bedrooms, paired with a boiler to provide hot water for showers and the kitchen sink, which features one of those magic Quooker taps that provides constant boiling water.
Two of the double bedrooms allow for subdivision into two single rooms, so it can readily convert to a five bed (master plus four singles).Īn almost imperceptible air intake duct draws fresh air into the house and feeds it into a Pichler "combi unit" (for both air and water) in a storage cabinet at ground level. What’s clever about the property is that its layout can be readily reconfigured for all sorts of living needs. “I wanted to see if we could get as close to being carbon-neutral at no extra cost,” he says.Īnd so he has completed a 120sq m mews for marginally more than the cost of a standard A-rated semi-detached house. It is not only stylish and comfortable, but it also generates most of the energy it requires from an array of unseen solar panels on the roof (which also power an electric car).Īrchitect Mel Reynolds, who has gained a reputation for his informed views on how to solve the housing crisis, wanted to do something radically different when it came to building a flexible three bed mews to the rear of the Victorian three-storey family home which he shares with his wife Louise and their four teenage children. For behind its starkly white and windowless facade lies a new vision of the future of housing in Ireland.
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