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Designing low-maintenance family homes on a budget

light to the poorly oriented site, and provide a blank canvas for the occupiers. A warm grey tone was adopted for all surfaces to enhance rather than inhibit the legibility of the space. Due to the slightly irregular proportions of the site (almost...

Project | 27/05/2024

Brick wall typography allows Victorian house by OOF! Architecture to literally say hello

nearby Wheeler House by Robinson Chen. Designed in collaboration with Melbourne artist Rose Nolan, this cheerful public face co-exists in parallel with the private nature of the project; a reflection of the clients’ desire for their home to be a...

Project | 27/05/2024

From general store to stunning home: South Melbourne’s ‘forever home’

Previously a general store, this South Melbourne terrace has been transformed into the ‘forever home’ for a Melbourne couple and their two young daughters. From the architect: Previously a general store, this South Melbourne terrace has been...

Project | 27/05/2024

Tiger Prawn: A playful take on the Australian vernacular home

fire regulated setback windows dually create substantial storage below and a high-level pocket garden. Like all Victorian terraces, the house was dark, depressing and everyone was living on top of each other. The brief was breathing space...

Project | 27/05/2024

The timber beach house that’s “all front”

has a small footprint, standing at under five metres in radius. Materials were chosen for their robustness and the home employs passive solar design principals. All windows are double-glazed, and the roof is covered in solar panels with micro...

Project | 27/05/2024

The Bach | SOUL Home

Located on the Illawarra coastline in New South Wales’s South Coast, ‘The Bach’ is a one-storey home that showcases coastal living at its best. From the architect: Located on the Illawarra coastline in New South Wales’s South Coast...

Project | 27/05/2024

Sustainability and passive design in a family home on a budget

. Design solutions The home has been designed to have visibility between all indoor and outdoor spaces, addressing the clients’ desire for family closeness. The kitchen, dining, living and family spaces all have direct sightlines to one another...

Project | 27/05/2024

Sustainable House Annandale: it’s all in a name

For Sustainable House Annandale, the intention was to achieve the best possible passive solar house for the site, whilst facilitating a more sustainable lifestyle for the client. From the architect: Day Bukh Architects believe that a green...

Project | 27/05/2024

Pods for vagabonds: Forage Built’s mission to eradicate homelessness

The Calyx-16, an innovative, sustainable and integrated housing solution built to combat homelessness, is a place to call home for those who struggle to place a roof over their head. The Calyx-16, an innovative, sustainable and integrated housing...

Project | 27/05/2024

Two Rock House: A home with more than one meaning

Located between two rocky formations, this home "is a space created around music, for music and all things artistic”. Sometimes a residential project’s name can be abstract, requiring a bit of thought. Others are a just little more obvious...

Project | 27/05/2024

Home Southbank | Bates Smart

Home Southbank, designed by Bates Smart, is everything you’d hope for in an inaugural build-to-rent development in a major city. Home Southbank, designed by Bates Smart, is everything you’d hope for in an inaugural build-to-rent development...

Project | 27/05/2024

Unique rebuild of 1950s Melbourne home that 'floats on water'

sustainable home that provided many challenges to overcome - including a running creek prone to flooding. Located on Jeffery Street - a National Heritage street in Blackburn known as one of the most unique native environments in residential Melbourne...

Project | 27/05/2024

A House for All Seasons | Poly Studio

Studio’s A House for All Seasons intersects sustainable design with functional and contemporary ideals. Located in Cremorne, the dwelling’s materiality is a mirror image of its streetscape. The grain, scale and materiality of the home has been...

Project | 27/05/2024

Restoring a quaint cottage to its former glory

A quaint, two-tone single-fronted brick cottage in Carlton has been restored to its former glory and enhanced by two new rear additions. A quaint, two-tone single-fronted brick cottage in Carlton has been restored to its former glory and...

Project | 27/05/2024

Box House by Rob Henry Architects goes only where nature allows

a series of stepping floor plates that move down, and with, the topography. Director of RHA, Rob Henry notes that locating the home on the natural clearing and down the undulating geography minimised its impact on the surrounding vegetation and...

Project | 27/05/2024

Allens Rivulet House 2

Australia’s southerly most state by creating top quality outdoor living spaces that remain functional throughout the year and in all types of weather. IN BRIEF Build a residential home for a young couple with one child that includes liveable outside...

Project | 27/05/2024

Designing a home that becomes part of the landscape

This home is a celebration of timber in all of its forms, with rooms that open and close in dialogue with the landscape. This home is a celebration of timber in all of its forms, with rooms that open and close in dialogue with the landscape...

Project | 27/05/2024

Passivhaus Nursing Home

to the north window, which serves, on the one hand, to improve thermal conditions and, on the other, as a vegetable growing area for the residents. The remaining two bands are made up of bedrooms, also facing south, having their own terrace with...

Project | 27/05/2024

Stacked architecture design used for multi-generational home

This project is a series of stacked zinc-clad boxes, combined to create a mixed-use, multi-generational home on a narrow infill site in inner Melbourne. This project is a series of stacked zinc-clad boxes, combined to create a mixed-use, multi...

Project | 27/05/2024

Water self-sufficiency for an urban home: Gladesville House by your abode

, with your abode’s design and construction director Darryn Parkinson noting that the home’s self-sufficiency for water is particularly innovative seeing that it is located in an urban environment. “It was not that long ago that the...

Project | 27/05/2024

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