Studio Australia

Series 1 Affordable Housing

A series of 6 innovative house designs with distinctive style at an affordable cost for purchase off the plan. Designed to fit a range of climatic locations, lot sizes, slopes and orientations. The designs incorporate the lifestyle needs of contemporary living thru the creative use of space. The plans while thoroughly modern have built in flexibility for a variety of occupants, sites and material selections.

The designs all feature;

Open plan living and dining with private bedrooms.
Efficiently planned to maximise the sense of space and privacy.
Extensive indoor/outdoor rooms in the form of decks, terraces and courts.
Light filled interior spaces with high ceilings to the living areas.
Large amounts of built in storage including car ports.
The homes incorporate the latest environmental /sustainable technologies along with traditional passive solar features to minimise energy consumption.
Built of hard wearing low maintenance materials with character that develops with age.

The homes can be adapted to personal preferences. The size of these homes has been contained to ensure they remain relatively affordable and to ensures an appropriate landscape setting is maintained.

Studio Australia designs and construction documents are available for purchase through Casey Brown Architecture

1 Courtyard house

The concept for this suburban house design is a home around a series of walled gardens or courts. This creates privacy in a built up area and utilizes the gardens as outdoor rooms. The central living area is open plan with a double height living room scooping in light at all times of the day and able to be fully opened up to two courtyards. The central circulation spine extends the full length of the site from the carport to the rear garden separating the bedrooms from the living areas. Constructed of brick and polished concrete this is a robust design for a modern suburban lifestyle.

2 Roo Run

The idea is similar to the American dog run house adapted to Australian conditions. A long pavilion design with bedrooms at each end and a central living area opening up on both sides with a pergola to the north and deck to the carport on the other side. The zinc roof with its distinctive gentle curve overlays a simple plan allowing all year round climate control in the cathedral ceiling central living spaces. This design makes the most of its semi rural to rural setting.

3 Outback house

This design is for country Australia ,inspired by the vernacular shearing sheds of the outback A simple plan on one level includes a pool and undercover car parking for two cars. The plan can easily be expanded as required for extra living space or more bedrooms.

The design is characterized by sustainable features to deal with the hot Australian summers which wide verandahs large overhangs, a double skin ventilating roof ,high ceilings and adjustable wind scoops.

4 20 degrees south

The concept in this design was to modernize the tropical cottage to suit the lifestyles of today

20 degrees south is a 3 bedroom house is designed for a tropical or sub tropical location. It was inspired by the old pearlers cottages of Broome in WA, Its modern open form plan centres around a large indoor/outdoor kitchen surrounded by open courts with only the bedrooms as enclosed spaces. The high ceilings and blade walls to the facades are all designed to catch the breezes and maximize air flow. The house is built up off the ground on one level in steel with a timber interior. The design features wide verandahs on two sides one being for a car port and entry the other enclosed in insect screens to the garden and suites many different locations town or country.

5 Canopy House

This design is for the tropics with two levels opening out from all rooms to maximize the beauty of a rainforest location. A long narrow plan with cantilevering first floor and a large overhanging roof creates a distinct character inspired by a response to the needs of climate control in the tropics. The ground floor is open plan with double height living spaces opening to verandahs and decks with a pool.

The upper level has separate master suite accessing a covered terrace and a series of bedrooms with a two car port below.

6 Tin Cabins

The idea behind this design was to create a permanent tent hence the tin cabins are designed as a step up from camping, a tiny but comfortable permanent get away from the routine of city life. The building is designed to be located off grid and as a prefabricated structure it can be delivered to remote sites and quickly erected. The 6metre high metal clad tower provides a cosy loft bedroom accessed by a ladder and a small living/kitchen area on ground which opens on 3 sides to decks shaded by the lower walls which are opened up by a series of winches and pullies.

The shower and WC are separate structures and the cabins can be repeated to create a village character increasing accommodation as required to enjoy the great outdoors.