The Standard

A Passivhaus-certified apartment building in Dublin, and one of the projects where we held both roles at once: architect and Passivhaus designer.

When the same practice draws the building and owns its building physics, the standard stops being something added on top and becomes part of how the building is shaped from the first sketch. The form, the orientation, the window sizes and the construction are all chosen with the energy model open beside the drawings. The result is a certified Passivhaus that reads as architecture first, with the comfort and the low running costs of the standard built in rather than bolted on.