Bere Admin January 7th, 2007

Bere architects’ Associate Director Dan Gibbons featured in Sublime Magazine’s January feature, ‘Warm and Very Cool’, discussing the passive enviromental strategies employed in the design of the practice’s Sylvanus House.

By Ali Watkinson

Excerpt from Sublime Magazine

January 2007

‘People can understand that a gadget provides them with electricity but don’t necessarily understand the principles behind maximising heat gains or minimising heat losses,’ suggests Dan Gibbons of Bere Architects (www.bere.co.uk), a London practice that bucks the trend, even incorporating passive energy in their renovation projects, for instance at Sylvanus House in North London. ‘Taking on board passive principles is more about lifestyle. If you leave windows open during the day in summer then the house is going to heat up. It seems anathema to us to close windows, or use shutters, although people on the continent have been doing that as a matter of course for centuries,’ he continues.

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