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The Sunken House, a 150sq m, timber-frame prefabricated house on De Beauvior Rd in the De Beauvoir Estate section of Hackney, East London for photographer Ed Reeve.
"The entire site was excavated to basement level in order to create the sunken concrete foundation on which the house now sits. With this in place, the prefabricated solid timber load-bearing structure simply arrived one day on two trucks from Germany.
The large section-engineered spruce panels were expertly assembled in two days and, to everyone's satisfaction, gave immediate shape to the house. Hemp insulation improves the acoustic performance of the structure while the solid timber frame boasts a significantly reduced carbon footprint. (Each cubic meter of timber saves almost one ton of carbon dioxide emissions, compared to the use of brick or concrete blocks.)" Max Fraser
Photos by Ed Reeve
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