IMGP1685 sustainable house
Image by RaeAllen
Sustainable house open in estate at 17 Mile Rocks, Brisbane. Has been designed to universal design principles so no lips from room to room, an access ramp, wide corridors etc.
www.sustainablehomebrisbane.com.au/
Westwyck - Sustainable house open day
Image by Gavin Anderson
WestWyck occupies the building and grounds of the former Brunswick West Primary School in inner suburban Melbourne. The school ran out of students in the 1980s and threatened to become yet another example of quality inner-urban infrastructure that had lost its original function and faced the bulldozer.
Instead, the WestWyck developers aimed to bring the building to new and vibrant life as an urban demonstration showpiece of sustainable development and good design.
www.sustainablehouseday.com
www.westwyck.com
Archetypes, insights and prototypes.
Image by hfabulous
One of the interesting exhibits we took in when we first arrived in Toronto was the results of a sustainable housing design contest presented at the Design Exchange.
I found the Design Exchange space itself very interesting, but the exhibit was infuriating due to the incredible poor information and graphic design the entrants used to present the details of their fully realised models and proposals. Poor type choices, no regard for layout and signage so crammed with information as to discourage any attempts at serious reading in theinstallation conditions.
It was a sharp contrast to the generally high quality work presented and the slick presentation of the information explaining the point of the exhibit.
Westwyck - Sustainable house open day
Image by Gavin Anderson
First flush rainwater diverter.
WestWyck occupies the building and grounds of the former Brunswick West Primary School in inner suburban Melbourne. The school ran out of students in the 1980s and threatened to become yet another example of quality inner-urban infrastructure that had lost its original function and faced the bulldozer.
Instead, the WestWyck developers aimed to bring the building to new and vibrant life as an urban demonstration showpiece of sustainable development and good design.
www.sustainablehouseday.com
www.westwyck.com
Westwyck - Sustainable house open day
Image by Gavin Anderson
Mascot for the low water usage garden.
WestWyck occupies the building and grounds of the former Brunswick West Primary School in inner suburban Melbourne. The school ran out of students in the 1980s and threatened to become yet another example of quality inner-urban infrastructure that had lost its original function and faced the bulldozer.
Instead, the WestWyck developers aimed to bring the building to new and vibrant life as an urban demonstration showpiece of sustainable development and good design.
www.sustainablehouseday.com
www.westwyck.com
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