By Green Sheep Collective
The design for this family home in Northcote focuses on the client brief for a sustainable design that allows for a flexible, changing family life.
Living spaces and bedrooms all receive north light, and a central courtyard allows views to garden spaces from throughout the whole home. In addition, the courtyard affords great connectivity between spaces within the home, so while inhabitants might be undertaking separate activities, they may still be 'together'.
Bedrooms for the children offer mezzanine spaces to enable creative, flexible, fun habitation of these rooms, adding views to the sky, garden, and north light. Large sliding doors to bedrooms and between the living and dining rooms further increase the flexibility of each space.
North facing decking features integrated seating, external storage and a BBQ, to extend the dining space outdoors. The central courtyard and associated deck create a 'sunken' feeling to the living room, doubling as external seating to the living room. Bar seating to the north facing kitchen window further integrates the deck and garden areas with the indoors, while planter boxes bring the garden right up to the built form.
Press:
Grand Designs Australia: Building Guide Issue 02
Kitchens & Bathrooms Quarterly Vol 28 No 4
Awards:
Finalist — 2016 Sustainability Awards: Single Dwelling
The collective:
Green Sheep Collective with Studio Kophi (designers)
Elyte Focus (builder)
Filter ESD (energy rating and sustainability advice)
ZS Consulting (structural engineer)
Emma Cross (photographer)
Featured three seater sofa provided by Grandfathers Axe, and styling by Hybernate Design
Respectful Architecture
Environmentally conscious, ethical, and community minded, Green Sheep Collective is a carbon neutral architecture firm in Melbourne that brings sustainable design expertise, flexibility, and fun to the design and construction of your building.
Respect for people and the environment are at the forefront of our approach to architecture. We deliver excellence in the field of sustainable design, and show leadership in producing buildings that have minimal impact upon the earth, contribute positively to their context, and enrich the lives of their inhabitants.
Working hard to get to know our clients and their aspirations, we listen to how they intend to inhabit their building, and use our design process as an open dialogue - together we get to the heart of and resolve complex requirements to create highly functional, beautiful and positive spaces.