Australians are living longer and enjoying health and fitness long into their retirement, so isn't it time we created homes to support and enable this growing demographic?
Pepper Tree Passive House is a sustainable secondary dwelling introduced to a suburban Illawarra home, designed to be nestled within the eponymous Pepper Tree’s canopy and built to the highly rigorous Passive House standard, the most sustainable building standard in the world.
Nestled in amongst the banksia trees and coastal scrub on the Silverleaves foreshore is a pair of glistening red fins – a bold response to the client’s brief for “a grand gesture on limited means”.
While Coolamon House’s escarpment position on the edge of the Tweed Caldera provides breathtaking views, its prevailing northerly winds render outdoor spaces effectively unusable during summer months.
Riverside house is an elegant and sculptural family haven located on a highly constrained site bounded by two major arterial routes in a desirable corner of Hagley Park.
A 1970s heritage semi is reinvented with a sweeping restoration that celebrates its original character, and streamlines it for the future as a multi-generational home.
Set amidst a volcanic boulder field in a pine and fir forest, Creek House is a family retreat that inhabits an existing outcrop clearing at the edge of the spring fed Martis Creek.
Situated at Margent Farm, a rural R+D facility developing bio-plastics with hemp and flax, Flat House is a ground breaking radically low embodied carbon house.
The space is separated into different layers with a homogeneous wash stone (granito) material inside and outside, blurring the boundaries, only the subject and the atmosphere surrounding the subject form solid.
The house is perched on a steep hillside overlooking the harbour and comprises three levels plus garages that connect from the street to the expansive gardens and public park below.
Architecture firm Peddlethorp, along with developers Kāinga Ora, has announced a new public housing development in Mangere, South Auckland that will meet Passive House standards for healthy, energy-efficient living.