Quoll Cottage
Quoll Cottage
Design Features
The Quoll Cottage is a compact, efficient design. Designed as a low-cost addition to the AlterecO2 range, the small footprint suits both urban blocks and rural living. The single pavilion home is inspired by the quintessential Australian rural cottage, with wide eaves and a sense of verandah to transition between external and internal living.
Quoll Cottage has two size options; The Small features two bedrooms, one with a study nook, one bathroom, cupboard laundry, within a total floor area of 103m2. The Medium has an additional wing housing a master suite, with an additional bedroom, robe and ensuite, increasing the floor area to 126m2.
While not essential, the external frame is designed as a SIPS system, and exposed timber portal frame lends itself to a plywood or OSB internal wall and/or ceiling linings. The roofline caters for a raked internal ceiling, allowing additional internal volume to breathe air into this compact home. Concrete-free footings allow for a flexibility of site, and while the house has been designed to meet BAL-29, upgrades to meet more stringent bushfire requirements can be catered for.
Frog House
Frog House
Design Features
The Frog house is designed as an efficient and well-zoned family home at 178m2. The plan includes 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms with a powder room and study nook. The zoning strategy places the master suite downstairs with a universal access ensuite, and the other bedrooms upstairs with a flexi-space to give occupants zoned spaces of quiet and play.
The house is designed to be best optimised with North to the rear or side. The covered deck and garage/carport spaces are ancillary and can be positioned to best suit each site’s access, views and solar orientation. The Frog house is designed as a house and garage. Vertical timber hardwood is placed on the lower level and low-maintenance vertical cement boards on the upper level. Windows are triple glazed and can be either all-Australian hardwood, uPVC or an alu-clad timber frame, with a powder coated aluminium outer layer of a colour chosen to match any palette. True to the AlterecO2 ethos, expensive materials are not essential to a sexy and durable facade.
Possum House
Possum House
Design Features
The Possum House is designed as a 3-4 bedroom home. It contains two bathrooms, plus a separate powder room and study. The house is cleverly zoned with bedrooms to the front and living areas to the back. The 4th room offers flexibility, potentially used as either a bedroom or 2nd living zone, with the ability to connect directly with the backyard. The staggered layout offers an opportunity to optimise site orientation, whether north is to the rear or to the side of a property.
Swift Parrot House
Swift Parrot House
Design Features
The Swift Parrot House packs a lot into a small space. Clever joinery solutions turn the hallway into a usable space, featuring the mud-room, storage, eurostyle laundry, MHRV cupboard and ending in a study. The study is able to be closed off for noise control, or opened to give the entry to the house an open and bright feel. Kitchen, living and dining spans the northern façade, taking advantage of the passive solar gains from the high-performing and adequately shaded windows. 2 bedrooms and a master suite line the south of the building. A dropped ceiling in these areas allows for an MHRV to run service lines to these spaces.
The east/west urban block is quite a common occurrence, so to demonstrate that a passive solar solution is still achievable on a 15m wide allotment is an interesting challenge. Thankfully our building can hug the south boundary, creating sufficient offset from the building to the north, gaining excellent solar gains and strong indoor/outdoor connection. The skillion roof is optimised to ensure protection to the north facing glazing during summer months. Our orientational glazing strategy minimises west facing glazing and maximises north facing glazing, which creates great connectivity to our SPOS, whilst avoiding oversizing the glazing to opaque surface area ratio.
Bilby Cabin
Bilby Cabin
Design Features
The Bilby is designed to be modular, with a 6 metre wide single pavilion structure that can be expanded in length to suit the brief and budget. The striking 45 gable roof lines create an immense sense of volume over the living zone, and also the ability to fit out a compliant habitable attic space. A portal frame design is based on 3.6m grids, allowing for expansion of the building in design phase. Exposed timber portal frame internally, lending itself to a plywood or OSB internal wall and/or ceiling linings. Whilst not essential, this building has been designed with SIPs construction in mind. Because of the small footprint, this building is well suited to a range of environments.