Likes:
• The Passive Houses by HLM Architects won our award for simple, clean and green living. 
• Our overall winner was Rural Design’s Secret Garden; the space was well thought out, warm and welcoming, practical yet quirky.
• GMA Architects had also achieved a very settled looking house with the use of timber cladding painted a soft grey.
• Of the larger houses we liked Twin Peaks designed by Joseph Thurrott Architects; great space for modern living
Our thoughts on the downsides?
• Internally many felt somewhat pedestrian and were disappointing; a great lack of storage space, many small bedrooms and several slightly odd mezzanine areas.
• The impact of a few houses was greatly diminished by inappropriate overdressing. The Expo has perhaps missed a trick – such a great opportunity to showcase the best of contemporary furniture and lighting.
The downsides are small. Anyone interested in architecture and sustainability should visit the Expo – a good day out and lots of food for thought.
1 comment:
Hello Tangram,
It is interesting, and probably revealing, that each visitor seems to have such different opinions about the EXPO houses. I think that every house had something interesting to offer. I delight in the diversity of intent, method and outcome, and my personal favourites are all different from yours. I agree with you that an intriguing variety of sustainable furnishing and lighting would have added to the show. So would a few completed gardens! However, simply getting most of these innovative houses built in time for the opening is a commendable achievement. I would like to think that ideas given form at the EXPO could find relevance in other parts of Scotland, so I put together a few pages promoting this concept at
http://www.creatingbetterplaces.com/expo/EXPO_2010/Introduction.html
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