February 2009
From the side, they're shaped like cheese wedges. From the front, they appear the most minimal of structures.
The Clay Fields eco-homes development, in Elmswell, Suffolk, is branded by its designers as "eco-minimalist" because it lacks the gaudy appendages so ubiquitous in green housing schemes, such as conspicuous solar panelling and wind turbines.
Launched last year, the £4.67m scheme was designed by architects Riches Hawley Mikhail for Orwell Housing Association in partnership with Elmswell parish council, Mid-Suffolk district council and the Suffolk Preservation Society, with funding including £630,000 of social housing grant.
The practice was commissioned in 2006 following a RIBA design competition led by Orwell and its partners.
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