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Location
Manly, New South Wales
Project cost
$0.5m - $1m
Building style
Contemporary

This character brick semi-detached house with a 30-year old extension to the rear was extensively renovated and expanded, to suit the needs of our clients, a young family. A second storey was added to the rear with new bedrooms and bathrooms upstairs, while a void in the centre of the home brings in natural light and facilitates cross flow and connection to the outdoors.

The project prioritised passive solar design principles, and we specified the use of sustainable materials and fixtures throughout. Cedar cladding was used to wrap the new addition, with cedar sunshades providing protection for double-glazed tinted windows, selected to reduce the solar heat gain entering the home.

A green roof above the courtyard increases the landscaping footprint on this modest site, and helps to keep the interiors cool in summer.

Photography: The Guthrie Project

Awards and
recognition

2023
Living Futures Institute Australia
Finalist, Biophilic Design Award Residential
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Noho Architecture was founded by Justine Money, a British-Maori-Australian Architect who brings a strong cultural sensibility to the practice. This translates into working very collaboratively with other partners across the various design and building phases – including master builders, surveyors, engineers and other consultants – to create homes that cohesively intertwine architecture, interiors and landscape in an environmentally sensitive way.

As an experienced Architect and businesswoman – who has worked in various capacities in the profession since 2001 – Justine understands the magnitude of each clients’ investment, both financial and emotional, and positions herself as an expert guide, steering clients through what might appear to be a daunting process. She draws upon years of experience and technical knowledge to guide clients through the myriad challenges of her five stage design-to-delivery program, to ultimately hand over homes that exceed the brief, and which her clients love spending time in.

Keen to ensure that Noho’s future projects will minimise their environmental impact on the planet – and deliver lifecycle savings to clients – Justine was awarded the pro-clima Certified Passive House Designer Scholarship 2019.

This latest qualification positions her as a leader in the design and delivery of sustainable homes and buildings, with a focus on human comfort and health, energy and resource efficiency and affordable design and construction costs.

In her previous capacity as an Associate at Eeles Trelease Architects, Justine worked across a range of project types and scales including multi-residential apartment buildings and aged care facilities, with budgets of up to $15 million, and public assets such as community centres and surf life-saving clubs.