Piers Taylor retrofits his own off-grid home "to banish the demons" of his youth - architecture and design

Piers Taylor retrofits his own off-grid home "to banish the demons" of his youth



Invisible Studio founder Piers Taylor has carried out an extensive retrofit of Moonshine ? his own off-grid home near Bath in southwest England.

Taylor remodelled Moonshine, which was named by UK architecture magazine Architects' Journal as Small Project of the year when it completed, to make it a more sustainable home.

Photography and video by Jim Stephenson.

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