Living Woods is the magazine for anyone who loves wood, forests and trees. I was lucky enough to be able to help editor Nick Gibbs during the launch period and wrote a feature on Welsh timber housing for the first issue: see extract below.
Britain’s getting kitted out in wood – join the kit house eco revolution!
The word prefab might conjure images of horrible tin-shack like housing reminiscent of the 1950s, but prefabricated housing today is very different. The use of timber to make prefabricated houses which come in kit form means that designers are increasingly coming up with beautiful, ecologically-friendly homes which are affordable and desirable. From Grand Designs to Wimpey homes, prefab is the way to go. And with the Sustainable Homes regulations including Carbon Zero targets becoming mandatory in 2016, architects are turning to the past to look to the future of house-building.
