Handbook / Manual
By: Ben Law(Author), Kevin McCloud(Foreword By)
104 pages, 108 colour photos, 6 b/w illustrations
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In 2003 Ben Law captivated the nation by building his woodland house on Channel 4s Grand Designs programme, the home was later voted the most popular Grand Design ever by viewers. The presenter, Kevin McCloud, loved the project so much that he has written the foreword to this book. A Grand Designs Revisited programme was aired on British TV in October 2005.
Full of stunning colour photographs, The Woodland House is a visual guide to how Ben built his outstandingly beautiful home in the woods. It is also a practical manual and the story of a man realising a lifetime's dream to build one of the most sustainable and beautiful homes in Britain. The Woodland House gives details of the evolving design process, the identification of materials, costings, project management and the actual building. It proves that low cost, low impact and high aesthetics can go hand in hand and that it is possible to build green and affordably. As the pre-eminent UK example of building with wood and renewable materials, this will also appeal to the growing number of people with environmental and green interests, as well as to the building community
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Ben Law has always had a passion for healthy, biodiverse farms and woodlands. Having gained an Advanced National Certificate in Agriculture, Ben became a shepherd and set up a conservation landscaping business, specialising in ponds and wildflower meadows. Ben's appearance on Channel 4's Grand Designs is the most watched in the series history, is the host's and the public's favourite episode and was one of the 25 programmes chosen to represent Channel 4's 25th anniversary. Ben visited the Amazon in the late 1980s looking for positive solutions to deforestation and on his return set up and directed the charity, The Forest Management Foundation, working primarily with community forestry in Papua New Guinea. He has also worked for Oxfam as a permaculture consultant.
Ben was a founding member of the Forest Stewardship Council and has lived and worked at Prickly Nut Woods in West Sussex, UK, since 1991; training apprentices and running courses on sustainable woodland management, eco-building and permaculture design. He runs a specialist eco-building company, The Roundwood Timber Framing Company Limited.
Handbook / Manual
By: Ben Law(Author), Kevin McCloud(Foreword By)
104 pages, 108 colour photos, 6 b/w illustrations
"The quaint wooden house in Prickly Nut Wood is no fairytale concoction – it is an icon of the movement to combine ecology and ethics in design."
– The Guardian
"The Woodland House is a gorgeous and glowing testimony to Ben's house. It has enough text to tell you what you need to know, but it lets the colour photos do most of the talking, and the result is a beautifully produced book that you could leave on any coffee table, it would melt the most hostile of hearts. It has an excellent collection of resources and other information, and it does what Permanent Publications books do best, it celebrates its subject, while at the same time passing on the practical tools to allow us to make one ourselves."
– Rob Hopkins, Permaculture Magazine
"Ben Law's unforgettable appearance on Channel 4's Grand Designs is captured stunningly in this beautiful record of how Ben built his woodland home. An innovative woodsman, he created one of the most sustainable homes in the country, and here he details his design process, materials and costings, proving that it is possible to go for high aesthetics and low cast and impact. If you're one of the over five million viewers who watch Ben you'll love falling into this amazing book; facts given, knowledge shared and information aside, the photographs of the outcome of the project can't fail but leave you with a deep longing for the spaces created. This is a dream that did come true and is all the more inspirational because of that."
– Wave Magazine
