AS PART OF OUR SISTER PRACTICE - British Homes Awards, House of the Future, Sunny-Side Up – competition winner (Collaboration with Valentia del Fuoco) The aim was to create homes and neighbourhoods where people want to live and continue living as they grow older. To achieve this, homes need to be inviting, carefully planned, comfortable to live in and adaptable, but also form parts of communities where people can interact, socialise and belong. The living areas are on the brighter upper floors with direct access to the central communal area which covers and secures the parking below, while providing safe places for children to play and spaces for people to meet and mingle. A single communal stair and lift to the deck allows for direct access the first floor front doors, encouraging the use of the deck and facilitating the interaction of the residents facing onto it. Planters outside the kitchen encourage the growing of vegetables and flowers where they can be seem to get people talking and interacting with each other. The houses have well proportioned rooms to allow for flexible furniture configuration and ample storage, a secondary entrance at ground level off the car parking adds greater flexibility in the use of the bedrooms spaces e.g. sub-letting rooms, having a granny flat or separately accessible office. The bedrooms being on the ground floor are naturally cooler with the warmer rooms above so less energy is wasted on heating / cooling and the double aspect allows for cross ventilation. The design reaches its full potential by using the most up to date technologies and construction methods /materials, aiming to emit no carbon on average over the course of the year.