AWARD YEAR
2017
CATEGORY
Home
GOALS
Sustainable Cities & Communities
KEYWORDS
sustainable building
COUNTRY
United Kingdom
DESIGNED BY
Timothy Oulton
WEBSITE
http://www.timothyoulton.com/stories/design-projects/introducing-the-dome-home/
The dome home
Minimal impact on the surrounding environment.
The Dome Home by Timothy Oulton is a unique, energy-giving space created for the brand’s designers to interact in inspirational and comfortable surroundings, nestled unobtrusively in the middle of a beautiful lychee garden.
The central Dome Home and the seven surrounding Round Houses have been carefully constructed to cause a minimal impact on the surrounding environment, located next to the brand’s remarkable four-storey showroom in Gaoming in southern China. The curved lines of the specially customised furniture echo the rounded dome of the building, with the aim of allowing ideas in the mind to float around without obstruction. The shell is completely self-supporting, free from columns or pillars and the whole structure has been created using FSC – certified timber – and is built to German Passive House standards, the highest in the world. It is an ultra – low energy building with triple glazing on the windows and doors which have been imported from Europe.