An environmentally-friendly house which aims to blend into its surroundings and be self-sustaining is due to be featured on television tonight.

Crossways, a house near Staplehurst owned and built by architect Richard Hawkes and his wife Sophie, doesn't rely on mains water or central heating, and is featured on Channel 4's Grand Designs.

Architect Richard has designed an airtight house for himself and his wife Sophie that is "zero-carbon". The home is effectively a couple of timber-framed boxes resting under a huge, unsupported arch built from 26,000 hand-made clay tiles. The whole thing is topped off with tons of soil and then grassed over.

But from a design that originally resembles an Anderson shelter, the building eventually reveals a huge, Gaudi-esque vaulted ceiling.