An 8-Star Sustainable Home Designed For The Canberra Climate
Hackett Gardens House is a family home designed for the Canberra climate, and its specific site in Turner, adjacent to a public park.
Ben Walker Architects’ design for the home ensures passive solar gain from several carefully inserted outdoor spaces, balanced with appropriate glazing, and pivoting timber battened screens for privacy.
Avoiding the ‘insulated esky’ approach (common to some passive house designs), the project demonstrates how thermally efficient buildings can maintain visual connections to landscape, without sacrificing energy efficiency.
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