The house has been designed as an ‘armature’ for a young growing family to live and evolve, offering a variety of open living and private retreat spaces. Family accommodation is contained within a simple two storey volume that gently terraces down the site thereby opening up internally to a voluminous open living space under the canopy of the Scribbly Gums.
Architect Kieron Gait, Kieron Gait Architects; talks about this simple, modest extension in Red Hill, Brisbane, redefining the way building materials are utilised within a home. The construction utilises a modular structural insulated panel system (SIPS) to reduce construction time and allow economy of site labour.
Owner/Builder Simon Williams walks us through his beautiful Canobolas House in Orange NSW.
To attract as much warm sunshine into the home as possible, owner/builder, Michael Paddison, oriented most of the house to the north and made windows a key focus of his design.
The owners wanted a house to fit 3 generations and a couple businesses. See how Matt Thitchener designed the home to meet environmental and lifestyle needs.
Mihaly Slocombe Architects had a ‘fun’ brief – this is for our grandkids, an interesting brief! The outside design is reminiscent of a treehouse and when no one is in the space the whole building can be closed up and could like a shed (a very decorated shed) to an onlooker, something that is not inhabitable. They describe Kids Pod as their most experimental project where external screens act as shutters over the windows.
Anthony Chan of Chan Architecture relays why the Elevate™ system was chosen. Windows needed to be double-glazed because the studio is south-facing and Anthony didn’t want to lose all the heat and the profiles needed to be slim.
Victoria Reeves of Kennedy Nolan Architects tried to achieve a scale that you wouldn’t normally see in a domestic building – to bring a simplicity and abstractness to the project. She achieved just that. The result is a beautiful oasis of light, views and green spaces that perfectly reflects the client’s wishes and Victoria’s design.
AWS has rebuilt our Revit families from the ground up, allowing you to select and configure AWS window and door systems within your Revit project.
AWS Smart window tool for ArchiCAD makes it easy to select and configure AWS window and door systems within your ArchiCAD project
Leffler Simes Architects are the team behind North East Water in Wodonga Victoria. It’s not a green star building they achieved a 6 star rating in terms of the design performance. Contributing to this was our thermally broken window and door systems to improve energy efficiency and comfort.
