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The Smart Home in Melbourne
Modern Residential Renovation Project in Victoria, Australia – design by the Green Sheep Collective
13 Nov 2017
Smart Home in Melbourne
Design: Green Sheep Collective
Location: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Environmentally Designed Smart Home

Smart Home is a renovation and extension to a two-bedroom single-fronted timber Victorian cottage in inner Melbourne. It utilises a wide range of social, healthy, environmental and passive solar design principles and products to create a high-level environmentally sustainable home that is also modestly-sized and affordable.
We aimed to create a project that achieves: An outstanding, affordable home: It was important to us to create an example of best-practice environmentally sustainable design that is both achievable and affordable for many Australians.
The final build cost per square metre for this project is $2,300/m2 +GST. We believe this is an excellent result for a home designed to high-level environmentally sustainable design principles, where products and materials included in the home have:
? positive impact on energy efficiency (lifting the efficiency of the whole home, not just the extension);

? low to zero emissions (such as E0 cabinetry, and healthy adhesives);

? ethical procurement, harvesting and work practices (such as radially sawn timbers);

? recycled and renewable comp...