INQUADRA: DeFAVERI's seamless energy efficiency
INQUADRA is DeFAVERI's flush-mounted monoblock that cancels thermal bridges for maximum energy efficiency and a minimalist design. Easy to install and customize, it marks one of the innovations from a long-established company, now part of the ECLISSE Group.
The result is Grafton New Hall, a project which looks decisively towards the future and incorporates all manner of luxuries within: 5 suites with jacuzzi, swimming pool, sauna, zen garden, a study for working in peace, a library and terraces. Outside an underground car park with a retractable helicopter landing pad as well as lakes, swimming pools and gardens. The question of sustainability is however not neglected – the building will be totally self sufficient and as ecological as possible – the overall form is highly innovative, above all compared to previous models and resembles a giant starfish, set softly on a sandy base. “It is designed to look as if it is growing out of the earth”, explain the designers who were selected from 90 entries.
If it was built, Grafton New Hall would be one of the very few residences to be built in the English landscape since 1997. Partly for lack of land – most of which is subject to restrictions; as well as by regulations imposed by article 7 of the Planning Policy Guidance, approved in 1997 with the intention of putting a stop to the uncontrolled building of the eighties (John Gummer’s Planning Policy Guidance, note 7, department of environment edict).
The cost of building is estimated at around 4 million pounds with as much again if not more for the finishes and fittings. For work to begin, the only thing lacking is the client.
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