Case Study

Les Bardeaux, Guernsey

Architects: BAS MOOARC

Les Bardeaux is a newly-built open-plan family home set within a wooded enclave in Guernsey. Jamie Falla, the Project Architect, was tasked with creating an elegant, sustainable home for the future - ensuring that environmentally sympathetic materials were used to meet the Level 4 and 5 Code for Sustainable Homes. High performance glazing, together with the latest insulating techniques and a renewable energy-heating source, resulted in a house that far exceeds regulations for thermal performance.

The use of existing site conditions was a key element of the brief, and the Architect maximised the level of natural light through the use of neo™ Fortecom rooflights. Featuring a sleek, contemporary design and flush edge-to-edge glazing, the neo™ Fortecom specified by Jamie Falla offers a rooflight that combines unique properties with a frameless, minimalist appearance to complement modern architecture and interiors perfectly in a construction which has earned a BRE Green Guide 'A' rating. Designed entirely from the specifier's point of view, its clean lines merge unobtrusively within the roof line.

Les Bardeaux has been shortlisted for the RIBA South East Downland Prize 2010.

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