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“As a sailor adjusts the sails on a yacht, sail your home through the year’s changing climate, working with the forces of nature to power its natural comfort,” says Dick Clarke. Housing size.In Australia, we have some of the largest houses in the world based on the occupants, which is not a good result. Bigger houses takes up more energy to heat and cool and more resources to manufacture the materials used to build them. I want people to really think about how they are going to use their house. For example a combined study/storage rooms/guest room instead of having 3 separate, rarely used areas. So really looking at how you could get away with designing a small space without compromising the livability for the home.
Nestled on the outskirts of Byron Bay, this former macadamia farm houses a revamped red-brick abode that has been given a sustainable revamp. Clad entirely in sustainably grown golden cypress, the home features a number of handmade details including rosewood doors upcycled from the home's original roof. Sustainable home design is one of the biggest ways we can minimise our impact on the environment.
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Judy lovingly calls the place her cave, but there’s no sense of spatial stinginess here. The home’s two interlinked modules are surrounded by wide expanses of spotted gum decking, which lead the eye out to the endless landscape and its distant horizons. This contained, cosy modular home gets through the depths of winter on the heat from a single combustion stove. Owners Judy and Graeme were keen to relocate from Geelong to a rural area and had been investigating eco-friendly homes online when they came across Modscape. Thermal mass is provided by pressed local earth bricks and a terazzo concrete slab; electric, by a solar-powered grid which also powers a long-range Hyundai Kona.
From that starting point, architects aiming to design energy efficient homes have several strategies at their disposal including the use of double glazing on windows, insulation, solar panels, and in-slab heating. Similarly, they have access to innovative products like Hempcrete, which is made from hemp, lime, and water; or rammed earth and straw-bale which can help reduce the thermal mass of a house. In the update of this tired weatherboard cottage, sustainability was front of mind for this environmentally aware couple that put their design skills to the test. Victoria’s first 10 Star home, the house uses passive solar design and cross-flow ventilation to heat and cool the home. This is achieved through thermal mass industrial concrete floors, under slab insulation, FSC hardwood double-glazed windows and innovative new technology Phase Change Material insulation in walls and ceilings.
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When people are looking for land, there are many things to consider as to whether it will be an easy built for a sustainable home. They need to consider which way is north, where is the sun rising from, what natural breezes can they take advantage off, which way does the block slope etc. They opted to go the prefab homes route for the simple reason that the whole region is in the throes of gang-buster development and they couldn’t find a builder interested in doing small eco sustainable houses. The all-electric passive design boasts ceiling fans, a chicken shed, a solar heat pump and a hydronic heating system.
This design provides you with all the creature comforts for everything you need to live and grow. The first thing I explain to clients when they come in to see me for a dual occupancy design is that they are no longer homeowners they are... We progress the design from a basic mud map of room locations and rough sizes asking for feedback at each step and explaining the rationale behind the design decisions along the way. The completed concept design will include all the necessary information for a builder to provide an estimate to ensure the home is within your budget.
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Located in Bundeena just south of Sydney, this home sits above the ocean adjacent to the Royal National Park. Designed by Grove Architects and conceived as a native garden, the sustainable house features a green roof to reduce heat absorption, a sixteen panel 5.7kW photovoltaic system and Tesla battery. Completed as a collaboration between its architects Snøhetta, Scandinavia’s largest independent research body SINTEF, ZEB partner Brødrene Dahl, and Optimera this house has 100% CO2 offsetting. With a total area 220sqm, it tilts towards the southeast, and has solar panels over its sloped roof to maximise the effectiveness of the system. In addition, the sustainable house features underground energy wells that complement its energy needs. In 2013, students from the University of Wollongong teamed and TAFE Illawarra teamed up to compete in the Solar Decathlon China 2013.
Preparation of Basix and energy assessment for you residential project including advice on how to achieve the most efficient building outcome for your project. We provide design and drafting services to project building companies including G.J. Gardner Homes Shoalhaven and Wollongong, Hotondo Homes Blue Mountains, Rawson Homes, Clarendon Homes, Firstyle Homes, Sanctuary New Homes, Bora Developments as well as other smaller boutique builders. We have prepared construction documentation for projects from six single dwelling to over sixty dwellings in master planned estates.
The Design Files acknowledge the Traditional Custodians of the lands on which we work, the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin Nation. Nestled on the Mornington Peninsula, the 7.5-star home proves you don't have to compromise on design when it comes to sustainability. Mirvac are hoping to encourage sustainable living with their innovative 'future ready' display home in Melbourne's inner west. Unique travel destinations, design-led accomodation and day trip ideas in Australia and New Zealand. Award-winning Australian architecture, inspiring homes, and interviews with Australia’s top architects. The Alfresco area is designed to suit every buyers needs, and big enough to add a bespoke BBQ area and designated seating, with room to move through to your garage.
So we want to have appropriately sized windows and eves to facility that. Old Queenslanders are built on stilts to allow for airflow around the house which helps to cool the house down quickly, which is perfect in a warmer climate. In a cooler climate you want the properly to be on the ground, on a slab, to avoid those cold breezes. We think about the embodied energy that goes into the material in the first place. For instance, the raw resources that are extracted from the mines as a primary resource that needs a lot of processing to be manufactured into steel or aluminium. But if we can incorporate steel or aluminium that has a lot of recycled content in it, then we are minimising the amount of primary material that we are demanding.
Its open upper box, which houses most of the living areas and kitchen, encourages ventilation. Also known as 60K House , this sustainable house is described by its architect as “an exploration of adequacy”. A one-bedroom dwelling, it features an insulated polished concrete slab to store winter daytime heat, solar panels, and an orientation that makes the most of the winter sun. The White Pebble House is a contemporary structure, but one that makes the most of sustainable building practices to create a home that is truly in tune with its environment.
Then we have a more Mediterranean climate the further up we go until we hit the tropical climate in the far north. So what might be an appropriate design in Melbourne would be totally unsuitable in a tropical climate like Darwin. We do this by reducing travel/ deliveries to site, reducing energy costs year-round and reducing construction waste. All Eco Homes Australia’s homes can be constructed in about one third of the time it takes to build an equivalent frame and brick home, with 100 more benefits to the surrounding environment.
The General's solar balustradesNorthcote’s ‘The General’ is the first building in Australia to utilise Onyx Solar photovoltaic glass on its exterior to generate sustainable solar energy. Occupying the corner section of High and Bent Streets, the glass balustrades have been ideally positioned to make the most of excellent natural light but also provide an important layer of thermal protection year-round. Onyx solar balustrades are one of the key contributing elements which won ‘the general’ it’s impressive 7.5-star NatHERS energy rating.
The result is a house that is extremely strong, efficient and cost effective. These innovative, cost effective and environmentally friendly insulation panels symbolise a radical change in building design and technology, and at Eco Homes Australia we want to make this superior technology accessible to everyone. Thoroughly considered site orientation, solar hot water, a Biolytic plumbing system for waste water, rainwater tanks and double glazed windows all support this thoughtful eco house design. Pairing inspiration from classic mid-century modern style with contemporary eco-friendly design principles, this incredible home on the NSW South Coast is full of clever design ideas. One of the most dramatic design features of the home is undoubtedly its timber-battened external screens which not only allow control over natural light and privacy, but are also key players in the home's passive-solar design features. This home is designed to be beautiful to look at and live in, as well as economical to heat and cool.
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