1. PASSIVE HEATING & COOLING

   The triangular shape of the home can be seen from the side. This accounts for the south-sloping section for which I designed this home. By having the roof angled towards the north, greater sunlight will cast through the skylight across the year, helping to passively heat the home, particularly in the cold, wet winter.

   Sliding doors and windows are also found all around the home. These allow prevailing wind breezes to blow from the west, through to the east of the home, passively cooling it in summer.

   

   Floor plan showing airflow through the home.

1. FUNCTIONALITY

   Along with this project exploring principles that improve the livelihood of a home, it also explores essential functionality.

   The design is intended to come fully furnished and fitted in a way that supplements the simplicity of the home. Everything is spaced out for efficient living within a 153sqm interior footprint. The interior is made to be fully used with the lack of walls, meaning more space and greater living for your money. Functionality comes with:

   • Fewer walls, more space
   • Family functional bathroom, laundry, & oversized storage room due to open-plan design
   • Spacious family kitchen
   • Adaptable bedrooms that can slide away, creating more space
   • Mezzanine with a couch-bed that adds 30sqm of usable space over the existing footprint
   • Fully furnished

   

   Large storage room, with a sliding ladder that gives access to storage ports in the wall.

PLAN SECTION

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   There is a lack of walls, creating more free functional space within the home.

SOUTH SECTION

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   The mezzanine is placed 2.2m above the kitchen, providing plenty of headspace in the open kitchen, as well as in the mezzanine above.

EAST SECTION 1

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   The home has been sectioned from the east elevation to see beyond the bedrooms and kitchen. The home has a very simple but functional design.

EAST SECTION 2

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   The home has been further sectioned from the east elevation to see into the storage room, laundry, toilet, and bathroom.

WEST SECTION 1

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   The home has been sectioned from the west elevation to see the bathroom, toilet, laundry, and storage room.

1. LARGE ROOMS

   The only separated rooms (from left to right in the image above), being the bathroom, toilet, laundry, and storage room, take up a large portion of one side of the home, while the rest still feels vastly open.

   This is down to the simple configuration of the home, dedicating one side to cleaning and storage, the other side to sleeping, and the rest of the home to cooking and entertainment. 

   

   The bedrooms, for example, are spacious and freeing.

WEST SECTION 2

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   The home has been further sectioned from the west elevation to see the sliding wall units of the bedrooms, as well as the openness of the kitchen and dining space.