The firm continues a love affair with modular, sustainable design through a demonstration of an experimental concept house called the Pad P4, built for the 2006 Grand Design Live, Grand Village Exhibition. The Pad P4 provides flexible, designer living that reflects lifestyle and tastes and can easily be adapted and reconfigured to meet ever-changing needs. The house, designed and completed in three months, utilizes a unique, innovative system which cantilevers factory-manufactured, fully finished room modules from a central support core. The fixed core supports individual room modules allowing the customer to remove and swap modules around in a matter of hours and without disrupting the rest of the house. Pad can be bought as an empty shell or individual rooms, custom-designed by some of the world's best electronics and interiors companies, to help put together a home that completely suits customer needs and tastes. The roof and cladding are delivered in pre-manufactured panels which results in a build time of about one week after foundations and services have been completed.

Applying it to a Winning Design, it's not hard to see the sibling relationship these creative design ideas have with Piercy Conner's winning submission for the Kolkata demonstration: Modular design and construction, unique planning for relatively small living areas, window panels strategically placed according to sun patterns to gently filter light, and above all a primary focus on sustainable, affordable living.

Stuart Piercy was born in Yorkshire and studied at the National University of Singapore and the Architectural Association. He was a designer on large scale projects for Grimshaw and Partners including the famous Eden project of Cornwall, Berlin Stock Exchange and Zurich Airport between 1995 and 2001. Stuart also runs UNIT6 at the Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL and lectures extensively throughout the UK. Stuart was made a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts in 2006.

Richard Conner was born in Lancashire and studied at Liverpool University and The Bartlett, UCL. He worked on the Berlin Stock Exchange and was a key member of the competitions design team for Grimshaw and Partners between 1994 and 2000. Richard has pioneered 3D CAD design in the studio and was responsible for delivering PCA's first private residential project ‘Tower Y' a 200 year old Martello Gun Tower in an area of outstanding natural beauty.

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