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Terrace House
Brunswick, Australia
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Terrace House
Brunswick, Australia
Type
STATUS
Built
YEAR
2022
SIZE
3000 sqft - 5000 sqft
BUDGET
Undisclosed
Terrace House is an ethical, beautifully-designed, highly sustainable and 100% fossil fuel free building in Melbourne, Australia. Terrace House takes a revolutionary approach to housing and delivers community-focused, environmentally, socially and financially sustainable homes, that are robust and resilient in the face of the growing climate crisis. Located on a busy high street, close to all amenities, the building comprises of 20 (two and three bedroom) residences, with 55 bike parks and three commercial spaces. Intended as owner-occupier, Terrace House is the re-imagining of a former inner-city suburban life, where rows of workers cottages generated and nurtured close community. Shared childminding, communal gardens, neighbourly lending and borrowing - these ideals are the basis of Terrace House. These are not apartments but terrace houses, stacked six storeys high.
Terrace House seeks to be a positive example of good urbanism, focusing on deliberative design over profit and working together with residents to inform the outcome and help them author their collective future. With the support, belief and funding of past clients and allies, and at huge personal risk to the directors and team members, the practice adopted the role of both architect and developer - to create homes focused on long-term liveability, where ongoing costs were a priority, not an afterthought.
Terrace House has a 6-star Green Star rating considered to be world leading and equivalent to ‘Platinum’ LEED and BREEAM ‘Outstanding’ classification. In Australia, multi residential buildings are require to achieve 6 stars within the building code certification method. Terrace House is 8.1.
The average Australian home measures 233m2 and is, typically poorly designed, high maintenance and inefficient in terms of space and energy. By contrast, small inner-city apartment buildings seek to maximise returns, using saddlebacks, compromising bedrooms and facing homes inward, towards each other. We believe homes should have an aspect out from the site, into the surroundings, and to the sky. Responding to this unique site (a long block measuring 10m x 57m) we took the opportunity to emulate traditional terrace house plans. Homes with big external outlooks, a front verandah, a study and a shared ‘backyard' on the roof. Terrace House fills a much needed gap in the Australian housing market. Relatively affordable, good quality homes, in an engaged community, close to the city, with super-low running costs, and without the constant demands for maintenance and poor thermal performance of a typical terrace house.
The form of the street facades of Terrace House is a direct response to this locality’s rich and diverse built heritage. The area has many examples of post war Mediterranean-
Australian architecture, industrial buildings and grand Victorian shop fronts. Terrace House borrows from this context in a respectful and playful way. A modern interpretation of the context, with recycled brick and tall tubular steel arches that reflect the suburb’s industrial past. The facade is a metal mesh intended to be taken over by the landscape adding further solar protection and a green outlook in an inner-city environment.
Terrace House seeks to be a positive example of good urbanism, focusing on deliberative design over profit and working together with residents to inform the outcome and help them author their collective future. With the support, belief and funding of past clients and allies, and at huge personal risk to the directors and team members, the practice adopted the role of both architect and developer - to create homes focused on long-term liveability, where ongoing costs were a priority, not an afterthought.
Terrace House has a 6-star Green Star rating considered to be world leading and equivalent to ‘Platinum’ LEED and BREEAM ‘Outstanding’ classification. In Australia, multi residential buildings are require to achieve 6 stars within the building code certification method. Terrace House is 8.1.
The average Australian home measures 233m2 and is, typically poorly designed, high maintenance and inefficient in terms of space and energy. By contrast, small inner-city apartment buildings seek to maximise returns, using saddlebacks, compromising bedrooms and facing homes inward, towards each other. We believe homes should have an aspect out from the site, into the surroundings, and to the sky. Responding to this unique site (a long block measuring 10m x 57m) we took the opportunity to emulate traditional terrace house plans. Homes with big external outlooks, a front verandah, a study and a shared ‘backyard' on the roof. Terrace House fills a much needed gap in the Australian housing market. Relatively affordable, good quality homes, in an engaged community, close to the city, with super-low running costs, and without the constant demands for maintenance and poor thermal performance of a typical terrace house.
The form of the street facades of Terrace House is a direct response to this locality’s rich and diverse built heritage. The area has many examples of post war Mediterranean-
Australian architecture, industrial buildings and grand Victorian shop fronts. Terrace House borrows from this context in a respectful and playful way. A modern interpretation of the context, with recycled brick and tall tubular steel arches that reflect the suburb’s industrial past. The facade is a metal mesh intended to be taken over by the landscape adding further solar protection and a green outlook in an inner-city environment.
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