RIBA Research Symposium 2012

Home Truths

Thursday 4 October 2012, 9.30am - 5pm

Venue: Jarvis Hall, RIBA, 66 Portland Place, London

 

With the state of the economy halting the progress of many new build projects, and the vast majority of our future homes having already been constructed, the refurbishment of existing housing stock presents a great opportunity for architects. With this context in mind, as well as the launch of the government's Green Deal initiative, the RIBA's 7th annual research symposium asked the question: what challenges and problems lie beneath the maxim 'don't move, improve'?

Encompassing issues including conservation, sustainability and design quality, the symposium explored whether old houses can become modern homes. The event included case studies from both architects and academics, as well as the presentation of an exciting student design charrette showcasing how schools of architecture came together to tackle the challenge of retrofit.

 

Keynote speaker

Jeremy Watson (Chief Scientific Adviser, Department for Communities and Local Government): The Triple Challenge of Retrofit: Technical, Behavioural and Financial

 

Chairs

Ruth Morrow (Queen's University Belfast)

Hattie Hartman (The Architects' Journal)

 

Session 1: Conservation and Retrofit

Andy von Bradsky (PRP Architects): Balfron Tower Listed Refurbishment

Alan Ferguson (BRE): BRE’s Victorian Terrace: a journey in refurbishment

Jessica Snow (Historic Scotland): Energy Efficiency in Traditional Buildings: Work by Historic Scotland

 

Session 2: Design Quality and Retrofit

Joe Morris (Duggan Morris Architects): 3a Hampstead Lane: Reimagining a Brutalist

Phil Coffey (Coffey Architects): Living in the City

Gilles Debrun (MDW Architecture)

 

Session 3: Sustainability and Retrofit

Alan Holloway (Penoyre & Prasad): Retrofit for Living

Rajat Gupta (Oxford Brookes University): Learning From Monitoring and Post-Occupancy Evaluation of Deep Low Energy Housing Refurbishments

Robin Nicholson (Edward Cullinan Architects): Project CALEBRE (Consumer-Appealing Low Energy technologies for Building REtrofitting) in Context

Marion Baeli (Paul Davis and Partners): PassivHaus Retrofit Concepts and Post Occupancy Data

 

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