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Inside Clapham's ingenious conversion:the experimental eco-friendly concrete house carved from a tight garden plot. Architects Deborah Saunt and David Hills dug a hemmed-in site and piped in the concrete to create an extraordinary two-storey family home that's a modern masterpiece. How do you get four metres of soil out of a site tightly hemmed in by 23 houses in a conservation area ? and then fill the hole with deep concrete foundations? Well, for a start, you need a very clever builder. You also require a tiny Japanese digger, a specially designed super-narrow skip and a lot of thin tubing that you can pump the concrete along. The newest buzzword in the building trade is "backlands", which present their own challenges. Essentially, they are bits of spare land ? back gardens, yards, garages ? tucked among the hotchpotch of streets that make up a city such as London. With some ingenuity, and a lot of intelligent architecture, they are places where much-needed new homes can be built. ***HOMES & PROPERTY TEXT AVAILABLE*** ? Charles Hosea / Evening Standard / eyevine
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2016-04-28
Charles Hosea / Evening Standard/EAST NEWS
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