anabo home

Thanks once again for your interest in anabo and welcome to the first issue of the news update. It's been a busy, exciting and challenging time taking anabo andy

through its early development stages and your continued support and interest in the concept is vital to moving forward into production. I look forward to keeping you up to date with progress and milestones in the run up to the creation of the first anabo communities.

Andrew Stoane, Chief Executive

Planning permission has just been received for the first anabo prototype, for a site in Edinburgh University's King's Buildings campus.

The house, a viola anabo 80, will be used as a live test bed for anabo's technology and construction methods and, on completion, will become a show home. We hope to include all the key anabo features, including the solar roof and the recycled exhaust air heating and hot water system. The prototype will be used to fully test this system's efficiency. If you haven't already seen it, there's information on the main anabo web site. Here's the link.
We plan to film and document the entire construction process and will keep you in touch with progress via the anabo web site. The completed house should be ready to view by early summer this year and we will be organising a series of events in and around it.

anabo is currently in discussion with landowners over sites for two Scottish pilot schemes. The sites, in West Lothian and Midlothian, would be able to accommodate between fifteen and twenty anabo houses each and both sites would contain the full anabo range. If all goes well, subject to planning permission, we would hope to be able to offer these houses for sale early in 2010. We will soon be looking for 'pioneers' to pave the way in what will be the first ever anabo communities.

anabo has a new home in Newhaven, Edinburgh, sharing an office with the architectural practice of its founder, Andrew Stoane. All anabo's design, modelling and administration will take place here. laverockbank

The new studio is on the ground floor of a notable building designed in 1957 by Scottish modernist, Sir Basil Spence. We've always admired the design of the building. If you're interested in architecture, particularly modernism, it's well worth a look.