Oliver Heath’s Home

Avondale Road: residential, deep eco retrofit

Award winning deep eco retrofit of a 1960s detached family home in Brighton.

This project which is Olivers own home saw the dual design approaches of carbon reduction and human wellbeing, combined to create a warm, inviting energy efficient and healthy home. 

Services

No project is ever the same, we work across sectors, utilising our diverse skillsets to create bespoke service packages for our clients; delivering tangible benefits to occupant wellbeing while keeping a healthy bottom line.

Healthy home features

  • Abundance of natural light through large slim frame windows
  • HEPA filtered fresh air pumped throughout
  • Zero toxin paints and finishes used throughout
  • Strong visible connection to garden and greenery
  • Timber clad walls and furnishings
  • Natural patterns in tiling and furnishings  
  • Raised beds to grown fruit and vegetables

The Leman Locke in Whitechapel offered three suites to be  transformed by different designers and stylists. Each had a different theme: productivity, tranquillity and romance. OHD's theme was productivity, and our installation involved the careful selection and placement of approximately 150 plants.

The design incorporated Biophilic features throughout including the overall design and layout of the space, the materiality of the bed, connections to real and artificial light, views out, sensory contrasts, planting, material and colour schemes. 

Within the space, there are some key materials that created a sense of warmth and relaxation

OHD and the Planted team brought together over 60 designers, products, projects and materials to explore seven forms of bio-design across seven ‘islands’: biophilic design, bio-based materials, biodiversity in design, biomorphic design, biomimetic design, and bio-regenerative design.

September 2021, saw its first full opening in Kings Cross during the London Design Festival, with an exciting 4-day programme which included:

  • The Sustainable Design Exhibition: showcasing cutting edge products, technologies and materials
  • The Botanical Market: selling plants, organic food and products
  • Barbara Chandler’s Green Grads exhibition: showcasing up and coming stars in the world of sustainable design
  • Sleeping in Nature: installation and bar in association with Out of the Valley
  • The Planted Unearthed talks programme: engaging thought leaders and practitioners with the key show themes of sustainable design, wellbeing and urban greening

We started our creative process with LESTRANGE by researching their existing brand identity and translating this into spatial terms, addressing both the tangible elements such as materials and sensory considerations, as well as community and placemaking. The OHD team looked at how the strategy could better connect LESTRANGE’s community and physical spaces to nature through biophilic design. 

From here we embarked on a collaborative discovery workshop with the team in London. During the workshop we creatively discussed material and planting strategies, as well as other spatial approaches to help the team and their designer Fred Rigby consider how to integrate a biophilic approach into their store design.