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This particular location
we flooded in October.
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This building was sitting atop
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this concrete structure with floodwaters
surrounding the building.
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Yeah, it looked like a houseboat. Yeah.
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So it was a pretty
breathtaking sort of image.
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The House is located in Rosebrook
on the outskirts of Port Fairy.
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It's in a beautiful floodway,
it was Gunditjmara land,
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and it sits in the ruins
of an old flour mill.
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This house is nine meters
by roughly three point three meters,
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which gives it a total floor area
just under thirty square meters.
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With the mezzanine level,
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you get a total floor
area of forty square meters.
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It's designed with a fully offgrid
solar system with batteries
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and a backup generator.
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And it's designed
largely to be a passive house.
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The road restrictions mean
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you can't transport anything on a freeway
that's over five meters tall.
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So that does restrict these buildings
somewhat to a certain
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ceiling height, which can make the spaces
feel a bit more cramped.
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That's why we designed this building
to have an expandable roof section.
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The way that this telescopic frame works
is the wall panels fold in on themselves
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and then the roof can be expanded
by operating a wheel .
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Which winds a cog system
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that pushes the whole roof structure
up by twelve hundred millimeters
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Then the panels fold back down
to complete your wall sections.
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The cyprus that we clad, the building in
are felled old cyprus
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windbreaks from local farmlands. They're
normally pushed into a pile and burnt.
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We decided to mill the timber
and clad our building in it.
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It created both a beautiful esthetic,
but also meant capturing a lot of carbon,
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which we thought was pretty important.
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We found the concrete slabs in a paddock.
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Its original purpose
was to hold up cow troughs.
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But they seem perfect
as a floating staircase.
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We also scrounged metal mesh
from an abandoned pig shed.
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And the beauty of that is
that you can scrape your dirty boots off
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before entering the house.
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The design was intended
to feel like a New York style apartment
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that appropriate for a regional setting.
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The design also explores
the use of materials
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that have been recycled or restored.
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The double height of the lounge room
gives it an additional sense of space.
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The lower section is encased
by steel glass windows.
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The glass section
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of the living area juts out
from the rest of the building slightly.
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When you're sitting on the couch,
you're sitting more in nature
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pushes you out into the environment.
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Copper and ply louvers run horizontally
along those windows,
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giving the opportunity for ventilation
to come out through the building.
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We have pivot doors on the south
and western sides of the lounge room.
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So in summertime, you can open
all the doors and have maximum airflow.
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The western side,
you can actually just sit on the ground
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and dangle your legs over the edge.
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The raised mezzanine
gave us an opportunity
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to capitalize on some extra storage,
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as well as separating the living area
from the kitchen area.
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And it gives you ample
storage under the floor
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for the things you don't use
on a daily basis.
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So the kitchen's got a two burner
gas cooktop, an extra sized sink,
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because the sink has to perform
a number of functions in a small area.
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It's got a relatively small
fridge and ample storage covers.
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The above sink drying rack means
you're not wasting valuable bench space.
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You can put the dishes straight up
out of the way as soon as you wash them.
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The sliding door operates
as the bathroom door.
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But it reveals this
hidden storage component.
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We chose to use a glass splash back
so you can still see
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the beautiful texture
of the spoted gum and again.
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The pig mesh was used for some shelving
to bring in that rustic feel.
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The kitchen table has piano hinges
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that run along both sides for easy access.
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And just to alleviate some space
while you're working away at the kitchen.
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The ladder, which runs
to the mezzanine area,
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can be wound up using the same mechanism
that warns the roof up.
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So once you wind that ladder
out of your way,
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the dining space becomes much more ample.
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And the advantage
of having a raised living area is
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you can sit on that surface
at the dining table.
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We felt that the Home Office
was a very important
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aspect of any house
moving into the future.
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That's why Nick's design is really clever.
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Home office space in the mezzanine
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that utilizes the space perfectly
because you can sit on the floor
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with your feet dangling
on this beautiful plinth
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and get amazing views
out of the windows at the same time.
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And then we decided
to put a bit of a bookcase
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easily accessible
to right there and chose to have a wall
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and a bookcase and a storage case
that broke up the office from the bedroom.
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The ridgeline of the roof
is shunted off center
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so that you could get this walkable space
through the mezzanine area.
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The bedroom has everything
you'd expect a wardrobe, a cupboard
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and drawers underneath the bed.
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We've got a mixture of fixed
glaxing and louvers in the bedroom.
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The fixed glazing
gives you an amazing view
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and the louvers create
excellent crossflow ventilation.
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The colors is still dark.
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To create that sense of the outside
is more important.
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While also making
you feel very cozy. Yeah.
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In the bathroom,
we chose to go the bluestone cobble.
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These cobbles, they're basically offcuts
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from the factory that they tumble
and get these beautiful rounded edges.
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They make the bathroom
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feel quite luxurious,
but also very earthy and understated.
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It creates a very nice experience
when complemented
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with the slats of spotted
gum on the ceiling.
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The windows are pretty large,
so it makes you feel as if you're
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showering in the outdoors. For the shy,
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we've got these beautiful louvers
that you can then close
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and feel as if you're less exposed.
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We also used brass elements
that have been recycled
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for the handrail, toilet holders
and in the vanity area.
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Every surface you touched
and felt really made
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you feel like you were connecting
to an earthy sort of experience.
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The plumbing has a composting toilet
and a gray water retention system.
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The design philosophy of small
is that we just want to shift
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the attitude towards
living within your means.
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As we evolve as a community,
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we are going to understand that
bigger is not better in a small space.
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Not only is it better for the environment,
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but it's also better for human interaction
and your interaction with the outdoors.
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