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The Design Inspiration of House with The Principles of Sustainability

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Courtyard House
Architect: Joe Agius Architect  
Photography: Scott Hawkins


Sophisticated ideas of intergenerational living, palimpsest, and allowing the home to engage with an urban street corner are all realised at Courtyard House.

Joe Agius Architect’s rich, nuanced and sophisticated design response for this old Victorian terrace, long since bastardised, was both a delight and a relief. A delight in how it designed and made a lovely architecture, and a relief in that it embraced these bigger ideas with real effect. This home adds to the conversation of what home and architecture can be.

Exoskeleton House
Architect: Takt Studio 
Photography: Shaw Photography


Exoskeleton House is a skilled extension of an existing bungalow. The exposed steel structure addition re-orientates the house to the garden and provides open plan living areas that appear to float in the trees. The internal alterations to the existing bungalow show care and restraint with timber details repeating throughout. Through simple and expert planning, Takt Studio have revitalised the existing house, readying it to welcome large family gatherings.

House RV
Architect: Plus-Minus Design
Photography: Mary Gaudin


An exercise of removal rather than addition is employed to make legible rooms and connections to an enlarged garden within a former project home. The existing built form is chiefly retained with the repositioning of garage and pool the primary interventions redefining the two storey home. Detailing and materiality is unfussy, placing the importance of the inhabitants and the functions of the individual rooms at the fore. The approach shows skillful restraint to amend the previous disconnect between house and site.

Lindfield House
Architect: Polly Harbison Design
Photography: Brett Boardman & Anson Smart


Soaring ceilings and deep thresholds define this elegant addition by Polly Harbison Design. The alterations successfully combine simple and robust materiality with vibrant interiors by Arent & Pyke. The carefully detailed addition uses generously proportioned living spaces to take full advantage of the oasis-like garden. 

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