This two-storey house on the edge of town offers spacious, well-organised accommodation for a family of four. Living and working areas are on the ground floor and bedrooms on the first floor, with circulation areas and ancillary rooms facing north. The house is a highly insulated wood frame construction with minimal loss of heat through the outer walls. Solid calcareous sandstone internal walls act as thermal stores; one of the walls, extending over both floors, has an additional active heat radiation system built in, and this heats the whole living area.