Winning Homes Victoria 2013
Best Custom Home $600,000 - $800,000
Best Sustainable Energy Home
Best Integrated Housing Development
Mark Projects
Mark Projects
Project: Elwood Contact: Marcus Hamilton Phone: 0435 877 885 Designer: David Vernon
Project: Elwood Contact: Marcus Hamilton Phone: 0435 877 885 Designer: David Vernon
Lightwood Property and Construction Group
This home is a functional and adaptable family home where living spaces are finished with expanses of finely detailed timberwork, textured brickwork and burnished concrete floors. The home has been created around a main living space, a single room on the ground floor overlooking the outdoor garden and deck. The kitchen/laundry area partially screens the living and dining space and an entry/studio opposite forms a framed vista to the rear backyard. The first floor contains three bedrooms with the master at the front.
Sustainable methods and materials are used extensively throughout this home including natural ventilation, thermal mass and strategically positioned glazing to ensure passive cooling. Hydronic heating and a compact wood burner provide warmth. Rainwater is harvested for toilet cisterns and garden taps and photovoltaic panels and a solar HWS reduce energy demands and costs. The result is a warm and inviting family home with a small carbon footprint that will function to the family’s needs for many years to come.
Best Sustainable Energy Home
Best Custom Home $600,000 - $800,000
Best Display Home Over $750,000
Lightwood Property and Construction Group
GA & JL Newman Pty Ltd
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Project: Sunderland Bay Contact: Greg Newman Phone: 03 8761 6151 Designer: Paolo Pianezze
Project: California, Brighton Contact: Cameron McKimm Phone: 0414 628 303 Designer: Pleysier Perkins
This residence is both bold and sophisticated in it’s design and execution. A typical beach house brief including many bedrooms and large gathering spaces, this upside down house boasts free flowing living, dining and kitchen areas, adjoining an outdoor deck with stunning views. Hidden sliding panels lead through to a powder room and the master bedroom suite. On the ground floor, three further bedrooms a living space and a bathroom are provided. The layout of the home allows two generations of families to spend time together and independently.
This modernist style home showcases a holistic approach to design and construction. The design is both free flowing and cleverly zoned with a distinct separation between the quiet living and study area and the everyday family environment to the rear. A textured blade wall that includes a see-through fireplace - subtly linking the two areas, beautifully divides the dining and family spaces. The zoning continues upstairs where the master bedroom is separated from the children’s bedrooms. This home is spacious and contemporary allowing for both privacy and family time when necessary.
Project: Elmwood, Wodonga Contact: Brendon Collins Phone: 0417 237 680 Designer: Lightwood Property and Construction Group This sustainable 130 townhouse community is devoted to low cost, low impact living and allows residents the highest quality lifestyle for the lowest cost. The Elmwood developers used sustainable building techniques in each dwelling such as utilising insulated waffle pod slabs and Environmex concrete in each building. All homes have the option of being equipped with photovoltaic power generating cells with the aim of achieving a neutral energy outlay. The sustainable power generating features of the community such as PV cells and water collection systems keep household running costs extremely low.
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Project: Elmwood, Wodonga Contact: Brendon Collins Phone: 0417 237 680 Designer: Lightwood Property and Construction Group This ‘walkable’, sustainable 130 townhouse micro community is the only one of its kind in the region. Elmwood has blended commercial and domestic projects to create an entire neighbourhood from the ground up. The multi-phase project includes three bedroom terraces with 8 star ratings and two bedroom terraces with 8.5 star energy ratings. In addition to the private residences, developers have designed and constructed a community health facility, alfresco café and a pharmacy to create a convenient and environmentally sustainable facility.