Circular Economy Villages (or CEVs) is a systems-based approach to living and land regeneration developed by Dr Steven Liaros, a town planner and political economist, together with water engineer Nilmini De Silva, directors of Australian town planning consultancy PolisPlan.
Project name
Spiral Village
Architecture firm
Valentino Gareri Atelier
Location
Bellingen, New South Wales, Australia
Tools used
Autodesk 3ds Max, AutoCAD, Rhinoceros 3D
Principal architect
Valentino Gareri
Design team
Valentino Gareri Atelier, Polisplan
Visualization
Denis Guchev
Client
Polisplan (For Bellingen Council)
Typology
Mixed-Use Development
The Extruded House is a bespoke design peculiar to the idiosyncrasies of the lives it seeks to provide shelter to. It is in it’s absolute modesty and simplicity that the Extruded House captures both the eye of the inhabitant and the design savvy public.
Project name
Extruded House
Architecture firm
MCK Architects
Location
Neutral Bay, NSW, Australia
Photography
Willem Rethmeier
Principal architect
Steve Koolloos
Design team
Jarad Grice, Ahron Best, Isabelle Orr
Interior design
MCK Architects
Structural engineer
SDA Structures
Construction
TOKI Constructions
Material
Cavity off-form concrete
Typology
Residential › House
Jaboby is a renovation and extension to an 1890s Federation house located on a beautiful tree lined street in St Kilda West with direct access to Jacoby Reserve, a small neighbourhood park.
Architecture firm
Lucy Clemenger Architects
Location
Saint Kilda West , Australia
Photography
Derek Swalwell
Principal architect
Lucy Clemenger
Design team
Lucy Clemenger Architects
Interior design
Lucy Clemenger Architects with Studio Stamp
Construction
Morcon Constructions
Material
Terracotta tiles, timber lining boards, pale oak floors and joinery, deep sea green tiles, soft carrara marble
Typology
Residential › House
An abstract composition of contrasting textural elements, this design responds to a very inspiring client brief for a building that ‘should not look like a house’.
Project name
Brighton East 3
Architecture firm
Pleysier Perkins in collaboration with InForm
Location
Brighton East, Melbourne, Australia
Principal architect
Simon Perkins
Design team
InForm in coloration with Pleysier Perkins
Structural engineer
BDD Engineering
Landscape
Matt Walsham Landscape Architecture
Tools used
AutoCAD, SketchUp
Material
Concrete, glass, wood, steel, stone
Typology
Residential › House
Tailor-made for modern living, the Sussex house is a bold, contemporary form imbued with a sense of timelessness. A contemporary expression of raw materiality, showcasing bricks, bluestone and porcelain - personifying the mass of a boulder, delicately floating within the shallows of a deep blue body of pool water, the weighted walls are softened by...
Project name
Sussex House
Location
Brighton, Australia
Material
Bricks, bluestone, porcelain, glass, wood, steel, stone
Typology
Residential › House
Perched on the waters edge in Ku ring gai National Park just to the north of Sydney, the Morning Bay House is designed as a place for the clients to connect with the natural landscape of Pittwater and the surrounding high spotted gum forest.
Project name
Morning Bay House
Architecture firm
Casey Brown Architecture
Location
Ku-ring-gai National Park, Morning Bay, Australia
Principal architect
Rob Brown
Landscape
Paul Woodley - Total Outdoors
Construction
Matt Moneghittie - Moneghittie Built
Typology
Residential › House
The Farmhouse is located in the beautiful region of the Southern Highlands of New South Wales, south-west from Sydney near Bowral and only one hour from Sydney.
Location
Bowral, Southern Highlands, New South Wales, Australia
Tools used
Rhinoceros 3D, Grasshopper, Lumion, Adobe Photoshop
Principal architect
Omar Hakim
Typology
Residential › House
This large family residence is composed of two masonry and tiled gable roof structures, a contemporary but contextual response to the more traditional homes in the leafy hillside street.
Project name
Hawthorn by InForm
Architecture firm
Pleysier Perkins in collaboration with InForm
Location
Hawthorn, Melbourne, Australia
Principal architect
Simon Perkins
Design team
InForm in coloration with Pleysier Perkins
Structural engineer
BDD Engineering
Landscape
Matt Walsham Landscape Architecture
Tools used
AutoCad, SketchUp
Material
Steel, Wood, Glass, Concrete
Typology
Residential › House