Sustainable Public & Commercial Buildings & Other Fun

Irukandji Shark and Ray Encounters

We are designing the new Irukandji Shark & Ray Encounters facility, where people come face to face with sharks and rays. Confronting? These are not the ‘bitey’ species, the purpose is to help visitors understand the importance of apex predators in healthy ecosystems.

Tilley Lane Warehouse

We created a design for a truly sustainable warehouse on Sydney’s Northern Beaches – that would supply all of the tenant’s energy and water, while providing a comfortable healthy and productive office environment.

Fairfield Public Facilities

Designed to reduce water and energy demands, the buildings use natural ventilation, daylighting and photovoltaic arrays (where site conditions allow) integrated into the conical roof.

Carss Park EcoShed

Kogarah Council’s Carss Park Community Garden and ‘shed’ is a place where the locals can participate in growing their own food by “leasing a plot” or attending a demonstration or workshop in the new meeting facility.

Laos schools

Envirotecture is supporting a project to rebuild village schools in Salavan Province in Southern Laos, partnering with World Concern and local villagers, supported by the Lao Government.

Designed to be autonomous, the schools use passive design principles such as day-lighting

Passivhaus in Australia

We made a book! (with a lot of help from some friends)

Passivhaus in Australia is part inspiration, part record and part instruction guide but most of all, a call to arms; we need this, we know how to do this, we have nothing to wait for…….

Narrabeen Baptist Church

Narrabeen Baptist Church had a vision that was shared by the community to extend the church and replace the original dilapidated hall with a new Education and Resource Centre.

The new Centre is a place where the community can meet and learn from many programs that take place within the building.

Wakisa House

Envirotecture is supporting a project to build Wakisa House, a young women’s hostel and education centre, in Kampala, capital of Uganda.

As part of the Wakisa Project – an established support project for homeless pregnant girls – a 50 bed hostel was designed by Envirotecture in collaboration with a local architect.

Visy

The VISY Cares Centre in Fairfield is intended to provide low-cost commercial space for youth services providers in the Fairfield area of greater western Sydney. The intended tenants are typically to be a mix of non-government agencies who provide a wide variety of essential support services to youth.

Tuggerah Lakes Community College

Tuggerah Lakes Community College needed a purpose built multi-function building to allow its many and varied educational courses to be run effectively. Federal stimulus funding was made available late in 2008, and a budget of approximately $900,000 was fixed.

Nalawala

Fairfield Council’s Nalawala Community Hall – a local Aboriginal word meaning sit down together – has been designed as a place for the community to gather, share and learn more about how to live sustainably.

Nalawala , being the largest strawbale community building in the southern hemisphere, models sustainability as an education resource for the wider community.

Homes On Wheels

Envirotecture also has a boutique arm of the business designing small things that provide habitation and move, with lowest practical ecological impact. Mostly these would otherwise known as motorhomes, though there’s the odd solar powered boat in the mix as well.