Description

The Hütt 01 Passivhaus is a luxury but fun home with its main focus on regenerative design. It’s a certified Passivhouse ‘Premium’, the highest category of Passivhaus that produces more energy than it uses, and it rates A++, again the highest category, in its Life Cycle Assessment.

It has been created to showcase:
– how we can build better houses in Australia
– how a sustainable design approach and Passivhaus can give you a beautiful lifestyle home
– how scarce inner-city land can be utilised better and more sustainably. Hidden away, it is wedged between a bluestone lane and a train line, creating a little oasis in the urban jungle with its biophilic design approach, despite the compact site of only 250sqm.

The four-bedroom house itself is built on an internal footprint of only 78sqm internally, but feels generous, multiplied over two and a half levels, and blurring boundaries between inside and out. For most of the year it doesn’t require heating or cooling, with novel materials and technologies like CLT, woodfibre insulation, HRV, aquaponics, green roofgarden, green wall, WSUD and more.

The project has been published in print and featured on Grand Designs Australia. It has won a number of industry awards and recognitions, amongst them the 2021 ArchiTeam Sustainability Medal.

What's On

Certified Passivhouse’s highest category, ‘Premium’, Hütt 01 is inspiring architecture with a timeless, modernist touch, setting a positive example for small-scale urban densification, on an unusual urban block. Impressively, the prefab passivehouse doesn’t require heating or cooling for most of the year.

Join a hosted tour of the house and garden, and discuss how we can build better houses in Australia, and what is necessary to get to near-net-zero housing.