In the first of my regular column published in Secrets Magazine on all things sustainability, I write about the New Great Australian Dream and how building future-proofed houses will make us healthier, wealthier and happier!
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Leaving a successful career in the corporate world to strike out to set up your own business takes some courage, especially when this coincides with moving to the country and getting married. Matthew Turner did just that three years ago when he established Enduring Domain...
Sometimes when we are looking for signs of hope and integrity in a world which is ever increasingly suffering at the hands of globalisation and greed, it is comforting to know that there are individuals driven by pure altruism living in your own backyard who...
So despite using rammed earth and curvy corrugated iron, what makes these buildings so special? The campus uses no active heating or cooling systems. Instead the designers and engineers have made the courageous decision to implement large scale passive systems to eliminate the need for fossil...
In a wildly generalist statement, there just isn’t the understanding or level or caring required in our mainstream building industry to be able to design and build homes and workplaces which can adequately control excessive levels of condensation and moisture. And it’s not just...
In the next chapter of the evolution of Enduring Domain we have now taken up an office in the hub of Creswick. In fact, we are right beside the new Creswick Hub building and directly opposite the popular cafe strip.
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Here's some media exposure from way back in a 2008 edition of Natural Home Builder.
Note that the headline is referring to indoor temperatures WITHOUT artificial heating or cooling, just as our homes should be.
Its been quite a few years now since I was an idealistic architecture student with the youthful naivety that seems to spawn creative solutions for all the worlds problems. I do however find it therapeutic and self-inspiring to look back at one's own theoretical...
It was 2003 and it certainly wasn't the first time that the CIty of Ballarat was examining design ideas for the CBD to make improvements to pedestrian and traffic flow, and to better emphasize some of our more impressive historical buildings. Although this time they...
We didn’t have reverse cycle air-conditioning, we didn’t have central heating, we didn’t have double-glazing, we didn’t have fancy specialist architects, yet the form and function of our buildings adapted and refined themselves into what we would now refer to as regional vernacular architecture,...