This warm winter home and a cool summer home design by AB+M Architects. These luxury homes posess an impressive volume of space and soaring ceilings. Passive design has ensured minimal reliance on air conditioning providing substantial energy savings. Further sustainable design principles have been incorporated in the form of skylights and louvers to ensure deep penetration of sunshine in mid-winter designed to warm the polished concrete floors during the day and re-radiate the warmth throughout the home of an evening. A warm winter home. The same design principles shape the architecture such that in mid-summer, no direct sun penetrates at all, leaving the same cool and creating beautiful breezes directed throughout the home by Ventury principle adjustable security louvers. A cool summer home. Positive air pressure breezes from the north east and negative air pressure on the opposite facade draws air throught the internal ‘street’ of the void, ventilating all bedrooms and other spaces through the home with variable louvers. The east and west walls adjacent other buildings built to boundary minimise heat load.
A large proportion of this project was generated using existing materials of the original 1970\’s blook warehouse; the original concrete floor, steel gantry’s, structural walls, roof, side walls, existing loading dock was incorporated in the design. New materials included polished concrete blockwork, stone, tiles, steel stud farming, plasterboard and glass.
