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Forest friendly
Discover how a surprisingly curvilinear home in Victoria’s Dandenong Ranges achieved a 7.4 Star rating without heavy lifting from thermal mass.
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Rising from the earth
Traditional local materials and an innovative spiral design with a green roof combine to offer a simple, sustainable lifestyle for this tree-changing family in Japan.
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House profiles
Hilltop hood
Built on an Adelaide Hills block no one else wanted, a small house draws on big design thinking to overcome several major site constraints.
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House profiles
Cradle to cradle
Thanks to the choice of materials and construction techniques, this comfortable family house in western Victoria is almost entirely recyclable.
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House profiles
A bold experiment
Having built one climate-ready house on an ideal site, this couple set out to prove they could achieve great ‘Mark II’ results on a poorly oriented block within an affordable budget.
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House profiles
At home in the country
An architect’s own home in Albany, WA, makes the most of its wild and windy site, using Passive House techniques to keep the weather out.
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House profiles
Future focused
Made of strawbale, recycled tyres and earth, this owner-builder project has paved the way to a whole new career.
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Passion project
A deceptively simple, low-energy home gives two Tassie tree-changers the breathing space they wanted to pursue their passions.
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Tiny & Infill
On cloud nine
This New Zealand architect borrowed a Japanese compact house concept for his own small home, achieving an uplifting living space in a mere 50 square metres.
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New build
Tassie off-grid
Going off the grid in preparation for retirement is a dream for many and a reality for Peter and Robyn Tuft who run their house and car from a solar and micro-hydro power system.
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Recycled container cabin
Rather than being insulated from the climate, a simple weekender has been built from salvaged materials to operate more like a ship, riding the breezes on its Sunshine Coast ridge.
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