Mike Roberts from Happiness Architecture Beauty (HAB) explains the importance of intelligent design as they set out to reinvent the approach to new build homes in the UK.

1. Intelligent Design: Innovation & Construction
21 January 2014

2. • Ecological and Sustainable
• Contemporary and Contextual
• Beautiful and Delightful
• Sharing and Sociable
• Profitable-Socially and Financial

5. Smart v Dumb?
‘In praise of the Dumb Home’
‘Then there is the Passivhaus, or Passive
House. It's pretty dumb. A Nest thermostat
probably wouldn't do much good there because
with 18" of insulation, and careful placement of
high quality windows, you barely need to heat or
cool it at all. A smart thermostat is going to be
bored stupid.’

6. • Light and Spacious
• Comfort at Low Cost
• Sociable and Beautiful
• Efficient and Affordable

7. Light and Spacious

15. Comfort at Low Cost

21. Sociable and Beautiful

28. Efficient and Affordable

29. Affordability
Flexibility
Diversity
Sustainability
Quality
Meeting the Needs
of Local People

30. Hab Custom Build Offer
Hab Plot
Hab Slab
Hab Shell+
Hab Shell+
Hab Shell
Hab Full House
Hab Full House