Description

Step inside one of Melbourne's most compelling examples of sustainable inner-city living. The 5x4 Hayes Lane Project is a fully self-contained home built on an extraordinary footprint of just 5x4 metres, designed, built and powered using both passive and active eco-driven principles.

The intimate session will be led by Ralph Alphonso, design collaborator, owner and builder of the 5x4 Hayes Lane Project, and begins in the courtyard with a broader conversation about sustainability in the built environment. Using 5x4 as a starting point, Ralph will reflect on how small-scale projects can provoke bigger ideas about how we design, build and inhabit our cities. Guests will then be invited to move through the house as their own pace before regrouping downstairs to continue the discussion and explore these themes together.

With a focus on best-practice design and real-world application, this session offers a special opportunity to engage directly with a designer-led project that challenges assumptions about space, sustainability and urban living.

Brought to you with the generous support of our friends and partners, our Summer Fun(draisers) offer new and special opportunities as well as returning crowd favourites. These intimate, limited capacity talks + tours will take you up close and behind-the-scenes with design experts, all the while making a valued contribution to Open House Melbourne.