Australian studio Austin Maynard Architects has designed a multi-volume, family home in Melbourne that produces its own energy and has a white-shingled facade.
Named Garden House, the home on a narrow residential street in the inner-city suburb of Prahran, Melbourne, replaces an existing single-fronted cottage.
Austin Maynard Architects designed a sustainable four-bedroom family home that is largely hidden from the street and produces an average of 100 kilowatt hours of energy a day.
Top: Garden House by Austin Maynard Architects. Above: the scale of the home is hidden from the street
"More than just a house, Garden House is a power station, pushing far more sustainable energy back into our shared energy grid than it uses," said Austin Maynards Architects. "The home was designed to feel natural and connected to nature with the use of materials, whilst still being hi-tech and high performing."
The home is accessed along a recycled brick path
The only part of the home visible from the street is a pitched roof garage clad in white shingles that appears to be a modest dwelling.
However, the main home is accessed along a brick passageway beside this garage and is positioned behind the neighbouring homes on the large L-shaped plot.
The rear of the plot opens up onto a large garden
"Garden House belies its size and scale," Austin Maynards Architects. At street-view, the simple and domestic scale garage appears to be the house, in its entirety,"...