Barefoot Architect News Today

The construction industry, with its intensive use of cement, is a climate killer. But an innovator in Mexico has found one solution: combining traditional adobe construction in a state-of-the art solar-powered public building.

Local studio Barefoot Architects has built a Corten steel-clad house behind an existing, characterful brick wall in Bristol, England. The home, which is located at the end of a row of terraced houses, is arranged around an internal courtyard and has been built on a triangular site that is enclosed by a brick wall. As the architects explained, "the old brick wall had immense character", including a rare built-in Edwardian post box, so they chose to incorporate it into the design of the new house...