Skip to content
  • home
  • map
  • search
Capturing Cambridge
  • search
  • Facebook
  • X
  • Instagram
  • Home
  • /
  • Projects
  • /
  • Trumpington
  • Back Forward
A modern building with light wood cladding, square windows, and a wooden fence, partially obscured by a large leafless tree.

Low energy houses Anstey Way Photo: Rob Howard

Virido concept house

A pair of low energy houses were tested over a year

The Rayner  family were chosen by Hill as part of a competition to find a family to live in one of a pair of zero carbon concept houses in the Trumpington area of Cambridge, rent and bill free for one year.

The purpose of the project was to observe how the Rayners interacted with the sustainable technology in the home, whether they found it easy to use and whether any adaptations were required to Hill’s upcoming development comprising 208 zero carbon homes, called Virido.

Virido is a new development in the growth area of Trumpington and will incorporate the sustainable features at the Virido Concept House, including triple glazing and heat recovery ventilation systems.

Virido concept house

 

Projects

  • Trumpington

Share this article

Share onFacebook Share onBluesky

Contribute

Do you have any information about the people or places in this article? If so, then please let us know using the Contact page or by emailing capturingcambridge@museumofcambridge.org.uk.

Licence

This work is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 not including content on external links as indicated byexternal link.

Trumpington

28 & 30 High Street, Trumpington

18 Newton Road, Trumpington

21 Newton Road 1930 – 46

The Coach and Horses, Trumpington

1, Strathmore, Latham Road

23 (27), Upwater Lodge, Chaucer Road

18 Latham Road

17 Bentley Road, 1939 – 45

10, 12, 14, 16, 18, 20, 22 Grantchester Road, Trumpington

The School House, Trumpington