2023 Master Builders Building Awards ‘Best Sustainable Home' winner

Winners of the Best Sustainable Home

Designed and built for a professional couple from Melbourne, who purchased a small tree site adjacent to the beach to spend the weekends in a tranquil and relaxing beachside setting. The design brief stipulated a low-maintenance holiday home that combined functional spaces within a small footprint and to be as sustainable as possible. Aesthetically the home needed to engage with the surrounding coastal landscape, utilising the mature natives already existing on the site.  

Panorama Drive is a project that interacts with its environment, capturing solar gains with carefully positioned passive solar design, working to passively heat and cool the home. The colour palette and material textures speak to the naturist surroundings, tying the project into the rich Cape Woolamai Biodiversity.  

This home has been designed to be as sustainable as possible within budget and location, including optimal orientation for passive solar design, thermally broken double glazing, air tightness, very high insulation levels, and thermal mass walls, which all contribute to the energy efficiency of this home. This means that the home will sit at a stable and comfortable temperature all year round, with minimal heating and cooling required, even when outside temperatures are extreme.