Sanctuary: Modern Green Homes

Build green, build beautiful, build affordable. Sanctuary is Australia's premier magazine for people looking to build and renovate sustainably. The magazine profiles the work of Australia’s leading environmental architects and designers and provides a wealth of ideas and advice on how to make your home more sustainable, no matter what your budget. Discover the latest design ideas and cutting-edge green technology, and tips and solutions to help you create a comfortable home for life. Each issue features lavish, full-colour spreads and floor plans for sustainable new homes and renovations. Regular topics include affordable housing ideas, design for climate, energy saving technology for the home, prefab and modular design and more. Sanctuary is published by Renew, a not-for-profit organisation that inspires, enables and advocates for people to live sustainably in their homes and communities.

Sanctuary: Modern Green Homes

Letter from the editor

Growing green homes • Enabling all Australians to live in more sustainable homes is a mission that Sanctuary, our publisher Renew, and long-time supporter Bank Australia all share. Ahead of Sustainable House Day, editor Anna Cumming sat down with BA’s Climate Action Strategy Manager Georgia Windrum to talk about how the bank is contributing to the effort.

PRODUCTS • These eight featured products are independently selected by our editorial team. If you have recommendations for products you think would be of interest we’d love to hear from you. Email: sanctuary@renew.org.au

REVIEWS • If you have recommendations for films, books, smartphone apps, podcasts, websites or anything else, email: sanctuary@renew.org.au

Sustainable House Day

Family focus • Perth architect Matt Delroy-Carr’s family home is a prototype for the sort of compact, efficient, affordable houses he’d like to offer his clients.

Leadership material • One young couple’s family home on a new subdivision near Tamworth is turning heads for all the right reasons.

Nurturing by nature • Wendy’s one-person home in southern Tasmania was built to be “just enough” to support her with food and shelter, and has evolved over a decade as her needs have changed.

Tall poppy • A modest-sized extension with an ingenious pop-up gives luxurious new life to an unpromising 1970s project home on the Sunshine Coast.

Back story • At Gwen and Richard’s Sydney home, it was out with the old addition and in with the new: a much better designed extension built with hempcrete.

Fresh start • Inner-west Melbourne’s first Passive House was the result of one family’s desire for a healthy home that would stand the test of time.

Maximum benefit • This Adelaide family transformed their 1915 cottage into a functional, beautiful and sustainable home, making the most of the existing built fabric and adding a carefully designed extension.

LINING UP • When it comes to lining your interior walls and ceilings, plasterboard is familiar, quick and cheap. But it’s not the only option; building designer Elizabeth Wheeler looks at some alternatives.

The Sustainable Builders Alliance industry revolution • Simon Clark, Brian Guinan and Jeremy Spencer, three of the innovative minds behind the newly launched Sustainable Builders Alliance, talk with Fiona Gray about revolutionising the construction industry for a sustainable future.

Sizing up sustainable homes? • While going smaller is often seen as a vital part of a sustainable home – and at Sanctuary we certainly champion small- footprint builds – in this article, Queensland architect Peter McArdle argues that it’s both possible and important to ensure those with the desire and means to build larger homes also embrace sustainable design and energy efficiency.

New Powerhaus app makes it easier • Energy...