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The House of the Future, more recently renamed Ty Gwyrdd, is a modern house located in the St Fagans National History Museum on the western edge of
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The House of the Future, more recently renamed Ty Gwyrdd, is a modern house located in the St Fagans National History Museum on the western edge of Cardiff
Cardiff (; cy, Caerdydd ) is the capital and largest city of Wales. It forms a principal area, officially known as the City and County of Cardiff ( cy, Dinas a Sir Caerdydd, links=no), and the city is the eleventh-largest in the United Kingd ...
, Wales. Completed in 2000, it was originally a showcase of the latest green building technologies, but was later transformed into an education centre. It was described by architectural writer Owen Hatherley
Owen Hatherley (born 24 July 1981 in Southampton, England) is a British writer and journalist based in London who writes primarily on architecture, politics and culture.
Early life
Hatherley was born in Southampton in 1981, growing up in a 1930s ...
as "a rather ambitiuous gesture for a place devoted to reconstructing the past".
Design and construction
The House of the Future project was a joint venture between theNational Museum of Wales
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, BBC Wales and Redrow Homes
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with support from Malcolm Parry
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, head of the Welsh School of Architecture
The Welsh School of Architecture (WSA) ( cy, Ysgol Bensaernïaeth Cymru) is an academic school of Cardiff University. It is generally regarded as a world leading school of architecture, and one of the top architecture schools in Britain. In 201 ...
. An architectural competition was launched to design an adaptable, eco-home, which received 321 expressions of interest. These were reduced to a shortlist of six finalists, from which the winner was announced in July 1999 as London
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firm Jestico & Whiles.
Redrow Homes were tasked with constructing the building within a £120,000 budget, but because many of the components of the project were not widely available (for example the oak frame and the green roof) the costs spiralled. It was completed in December 2000 and the process also resulted in three 40 minute BBC #REDIRECT BBC #REDIRECT BBC
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...Bridgend
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, who enjoyed the open plan kitchen, but disliked the bedrooms and had problems with the computer controls.
The house was officially opened by Welsh Assembly
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Minister for Culture, Jenny Randerson
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, at the end of April 2001.
It went on to win several design awards, including the National Homebuilder Design Award (2001) and the Welsh Housing Design award (2002). Redrow meanwhile were criticised for building houses only 10 minutes away that were the antithesis of the St Fagans house, with ''The Telegraph
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Australia
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'' saying they were "getting ever further away, not closer, to the house of the future it has sponsored."
Features
The house was designed to make a netcarbon dioxide emission
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of zero.
Education centre
After ten years many of the futuristic elements had been superseded by current technology, for examplerecycling
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of refuse was now common and low wattage lightbulbs were widely used in households. Other systems, for example the solar panels and ground source heat pumps remained prohibitively expensive. The contents had begun to look dated and it was claimed the museum's culture did not support serious investment to keep the technology ahead of fashion. With its days numbered as a futuristic exhibit, plans were put in place in 2009 to convert the house into an educational centre, named Ty Gwyrdd ('Green House'), to host environmental courses.
During refurbishment of the museum's main building during the 2010s, Ty Gwyrdd was used as the main gift shop.
See also
*Low-impact development (UK)
Low-impact development (LID) has been defined as "development which through its low negative environmental impact either enhances or does not significantly diminish environmental quality".
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References
{{reflist Education in Cardiff Environmental education in Wales Houses completed in 2000 Houses in Cardiff St Fagans National Museum of History Sustainable buildings in the United Kingdom