Territory
People & Experiments
Builders, communities and precedents.
Works in Progress
Lammas: permission to live on the land
Lammas Ecovillage in Pembrokeshire won planning permission in 2009 after two refusals. Why land and planning are often the real barrier.
The Archive
The sun house that ran out of salt
The Dover Sun House stored the sun's heat in Glauber's salt. It worked, then it didn't. A 1948 experiment and what it still teaches.
Library records
The full Library → Dwelling · D-08 Lammas Ecovillage Nine households on about seven acres each near Crymych, Pembrokeshire. The first UK ecovillage to win planning permission, in 2009. Case by case Person · P-04 Amelia Peabody Boston sculptor and philanthropist who funded the Dover Sun House and owned the land it was built on. Person · P-05 Edward C. Jones Charleston architect who designed the Gothic-revival Church of the Holy Cross in Stateburg, South Carolina, built in rammed earth. Person · P-02 Eleanor Raymond Boston architect who designed the Dover Sun House (1948), one of the first houses heated by the sun alone. Person · P-01 Malcolm Wells Architect (1926–2009), often called the father of modern earth-sheltered architecture. Built underground offices and homes in New Jersey and on Cape Cod. Person · P-03 Mária Telkes Physicist who designed the Glauber's-salt heat storage for the Dover Sun House, then founded a solar-energy lab at New York University. Person · P-06 William W. Anderson Physician who settled in Stateburg in 1810, built in pisé de terre at his Borough House, and persuaded his church to build in it too.