iPHA webinar: The Seed Cohousing

Pro­ject Spot­light: The Seed Co­hous­ing - ex­plor­ing shared liv­ing in an eco Pass­ive House
with Kirsty Maguire, Kirsty Maguire Ar­chi­tect Ltd, and Jeff Col­ley, Pass­ive House Plus Magazine.

Hear Passivhaus De­sign­er and Ar­chi­tect, Kirsty Maguire and Jeff Col­ley from the Pass­ive House+ magazine, talk about The Seed Co-hous­ing pro­ject.

This is a cer­ti­fied Pass­ive House pro­ject with a spe­cial fo­cus on both so­cial and tech­nic­al sus­tain­ab­il­ity. The Seed is a co-liv­ing wood­land home near Dun­dee, for two fam­il­ies with around 180m² liv­ing area. Built on the site of a dilap­id­ated home, it re­uses most of the ori­gin­al struc­ture’s ma­ter­i­als and re­places it with a cer­ti­fied Pass­ive House Clas­sic build­ing con­struc­ted al­most en­tirely from bio-based products. Ce­ment was nearly elim­in­ated to min­im­ise em­bod­ied car­bon, and the design was driv­en by a deeply col­lab­or­at­ive pro­cess fo­cused on en­vir­on­ment­al sens­it­iv­ity.