Awards.
Winner of the 2023 Master Builders Victoria Regional Building Awards ‘Best Sustainable Home’
Designed and built for a professional couple from Melbourne, who purchased a small tree site adjacent to the beach to spend the weekends in a tranquil and relaxing beach side setting.
The design brief stipulated a low maintenance holiday home that combined functional spaces within a small footprint and to be as sustainable as possible. Aesthetically the home needed to engage with the surrounding coastal landscape, utilising the mature natives already existing on the site.
Panorama Drive is a project that interacts with its environment, capturing solar gains with carefully positioned passive solar design, working to passively heat and cool the home. The colour palette and material textures speak to the naturist surroundings, tying the project into the rich Cape Woolamai Biodiversity.
Winner of the 2023 Master Builders Victoria Regional Building Awards ‘Best Custom Home’
Spinifex is the future of affordable sustainable housing with a 7.6 Star rating.
Located in Cape Paterson, Spinifex is Small but mighty, just 164m2 is size, but cleverly designed so it is open, airy and complete with ample storage. Complete with 2 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, generous study and open plan living.
It has been fitted with 3.7kw solar system, an electric vehicle charging point and an impressive 10,000Ltrs of underground water storage.
The Spinifex is a low maintenance home that combines functional spaces within a small footprint.
Spinifex interacts with its environment, capturing solar gains with carefully positioned passive solar design, working to passively heat and cool the home.
Winner of the 2022 Master Builders Victoria Regional Building Awards ‘Best Sustainable Home’
Viminalis, named after the Eucalyptus Viminalis Manna Gum, its design centred on sustainability, harnessing materials that sequesters carbon while efficiently absorbing and disbursing energy.
Viminalis is a project that interacts with its environment, capturing solar gains with carefully positioned passive solar design, working to passively heat and cool the home.
The colour palette and material textures speak to the naturist surroundings, tying the project into the rich Live At The Cape Biodiversity. Energy-efficient, 9 star energy rating , passive solar, solar system, healthy home.
Winner of the 2021 Master Builders Victoria Regional Building Awards ‘Best Custom Home’
This custom home is located on the beach at Coronet Bay, where entertaining and living come together with ease while ensuring key connections to the home’s unique beachside setting.
Upon opening the front door of this home there is views of Western Port Bay. This leads directly into the main living, kitchen, and dining area, designed to maximise the view and the simple functionality of the space.
Clean, simple lines and layout are finished off exquisitely with Terrazzo tiles, hand selected stone by Signorino Tile Gallery, Designer Door Wear, high detailed cabinetry, and natural fibre sisal carpet.
Winner of the 2020 Master Builders Victorian Excellence in Housing Awards ‘Best Custom Home’
Designed with the location and the climate of the area in mind, a critical element was to make use of the northerly aspect of the block with full-height commercial windows and doors to maximise the winter sun and to flood the entire house with natural light.
Hit-and-miss brickwork has been designed into the exterior to capture the sea breeze and air flow, while burnished concrete floors throughout increase the thermal mass of the sun entering from the north.
Especially designed to the client’s needs, a functional layout includes minimal hallways and corridors, creating a flow through the home’s two-bed, one-studio, two-living and two-bathroom design.