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This residence was designed to express the character of its owners,who have a passion for “crafted” eclectic design. The house is a passive solar design with its habitable rooms facing north, north/west while the back of the home faces the location’s strong south-westerly breezes. The living spaces capture the north-westerly sea views from a large ...
The Ecotect team was commissioned to design a home with a Queenslander aesthetic for a rural block in Mariginiup. The style of a Queenslander is elegant with large verandahs, high ceilings, steeply pitched roofs and lightweight construction clad with weatherboards. The Ecotect architectural team adapted this style of house to suit Perth’s Mediterranean-type climate.
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This project was located on a site that was not perfectly suited to passive solar design. To optimise the orientation and meet the challenge presented by the site, the Ecotect team orientated all major interior spaces to within 20 degrees of the east-west axis. This allows for effective control of passive solar gains throughout the ...
The South Beach Promenade site in South Fremantle has a beautiful, uninterrupted north-westerly view across parkland to the beach. The brief for the project was for a passive solar, Fremantle-style house with an upper-floor retreat. The client’s intention was to utilise the upper floor for himself while the downstairs area would be mostly used by ...
Ecotect Architects was commissioned to provide a design that converted a very plain house into a home that maximised the spectacular views of Fremantle and the coastline while achieving the clients and architects philosophy of an environmentally sound renovation. The challenge for the architectural team was to create a passive solar family house while achieving ...
The client wanted to upgrade their very plain looking face brick and brown tiled roofed house in Woodlands. Structurally the building was sound. An existing courtyard was enclosed and a double volume reflecting northern light through high level windows into the centre of the house.
The client wanted to upgrade their very plain looking face brick ...
This beautiful 2 Ha site slopes down in a westerly direction and has a prominent granite outcrop running through the middle of it. There are spectacular forest views to the west. The client wanted a passive solar house that related well to the site.
This beautiful 2 Ha site slopes down in a westerly direction and ...
The house needed a facelift and Andie needed a studio to teach her drama students. With an eye to re-sale it was decided to design the studio so that it could be turned into a double garage if required at some future date.
The house needed a facelift and Andie needed a studio to teach her ...
This house was designed for the perfect passive solar site located on a hillside with views to the north. Overlooking the ocean, the home was designed to be as organic as possible. The home features a north-facing cantilevered deck and a large adjacent sun space that could be ventilated in the summer.The deck also features ...
Bluff Point House, built in the Mediterranean style of the area, is located in the north-west West Australian town of Geraldton. Possibly in the most perfect place on the planet for passive solar design, the home faces north to the street with views to the north-west to the ocean and car access to the back ...
The Solar Energy Information Centre was the idea of Mr Garry Baverstock in the 1980s. At a time when knowledge and awareness of solar energy was low but growing, Mr Baverstock received support and input from marketing strategist and businessmen to secure a building in South Perth. It won the Australian Design Award in 1990 ...
Designed and project managed by Garry Baverstock, this building was one of the few passive solar designs in Perth at the time. It continues to be one of the most sought-after office locations in the area.
A range of climate sensibly designed portable homes that where built in Perth and transported to South Hedland where they where quickly assembled. A range of design options were submitted to provide VDM and their clients with home layout and design choices.
Nine Independent Living Units and a communal room have been built as part of a cluster housing development within the Mandurah Retirement Village Master plan. These have communal parking areas and are accessed by paths to their units.
With a positive and satisfactory working relationship in place with MRV, a new request was made to design and oversee the build of a 34 bed nursing home extension. The job entailed designing the rooms into clusters of between 10 and 12 and each cluster would have its own communal area.
18 bed Respite Centre and Day Centre controlled by a centralised Nurse’s Station. The Nurse consultant wanted the doors to each room in the Respite Centre to lead off a centralised communal area which would in turn be easily viewed from the central Nurse’s Station.The Fire requirements placed limitations on this concept, but in principle ...
After 4.5-year journey Garry Baverstock and James Shaw achieved a DA approval from the JDAPS system. It is a state of the art Sustainable Development to suit a future master planning vision for this TOD in Western Australia.
This is an innovative initiative that will be a ground-breaking step forward for all aspects of the built ...
Ecotect-Architects designed a conversion for The Russell Centre to retrofit it as a commercially viable solar efficient office building. Retrofit additions include an internal shade-controlled solarium and a series of external shade awnings designed to reflect light upwards into the building. Resulting heat loads and light levels were kept uniform in the building and external ...
Ecotect Architects worked directly with the Armadale Redevelopment Authority (ARA) to help masterplan three development precincts – Champion Lakes, Champion Drive and Forrestdale Industrial Estate. Work included materplanning, developing guidelines and working with the consultant team to prepare a sustainable development checklist.
The Perth Zoo Administration Building is a ‘high tech’ building with a deliberately ‘low tech’ external appearance. The brief required the design of a building with minimal running costs, in particular the minimisation of energy use.
In the mid 2000s a company called TBB was appointed by the Subiaco Re-Development Authority to elicit ideas, drawings and recommendations on what should be done with the Fine China site. Ecotect and TBB submitted drawings that would compliment the environment .
In 1998 the City of Melville appointed Ecotect-Architects after a tender submission by a limited number of firms to design a new environmental building in the heart of an A class reserve called Piney Lakes. This wetland site is a unique area where natural wetlands and wildlife is preserved. The community was engaged early in ...
Ecotect Architects’ affordable courtyard house optimises the aspects of passive solar design, with north facing windows protected by solar pergolas where necessary and by shaping the house plan to capture prevailing breezes.
