2021 - 2022
Located on a former coalfield in Northern England, this horticultural community introduces an alternative way of collective living, where domestic activities become responsive to seasonal and climatic shifts. The project integrates both active and passive heating strategies to create a more sustainable and interconnected environment in a rural condition.
Active heating walls, utilising geothermal energy from abandoned mining water, perform congregational moments rather than acting as thresholds. Excessive heat from domestic activities becomes exchangeable for neighbours and gardens through the passive heating walls following the historic fruit wall technique.
The configuration of these techniques challenges the steady state environment of our homes, and reconceptualises our everyday life by questioning the conventional notion of work and home, individual and communal, warm and cold, clean and dirty, intimate and distant, across the wall.
