Sustainable House Annandale

Location: Annandale, Sydney
Architect: Day Bukh Architects
Client: Private
Year: 2014 - completed
Sustainability features:

- passive solar design
- low e glass
- water saving devices
- high levels of insulation
- led lighting
- secondary dwelling on site
- renewable and recycled timbers
- low impact fibre cement
- cooling gardens

brief

The owners, having lived in the house for 16 years, required modernising of the bathrooms and kitchen and a new living area with direct access to the rear garden. They also required space for a substantial home office and a separate studio for their adolescent children.

design response / concept

To provide 2 pavilions centred around the existing swimming pool and gardens. To design the studio so that it has autonomy whilst also being an integral part of the whole house and garden space. Passive solar design systems thermal mass and insulation, orientation of openings, cross ventilation, stack effect, cooling gardens, and shading devices.

materials

FSC lightweight timber for walls and structure.
Recycled brick for internal modifications.
Recycled concrete for footings and pathways.
FSC timber framed glazed windows and doors.