Affordable Housing

Enabling people to afford functional, energy-efficient, stylish housing has always been a passion for Howard + Phillips Design Partners' designer, Ross Howard.

As a result of this passion, Ross has designed an Affordable Housing prototype costing under $100,000. The two-bedroom house incorporates an efficient way of building with preassembled panels that can be sent anywhere in Australia. Elegant in its simplicity, the light-filled house features two large decks emphasising indoor and outdoor transits.

In this prototype, architecture and building have achieved energy rating standards embracing passive solar principles, an efficient use of materials, a sense of spaciousness on a reduced footprint and visual diversity while also being contemporary in design and balanced with an affordable threshold.

The project succeeds in major energy savings from reduced power consumption with an abundance of controlled natural light, avoiding unnecessary reliance upon artificial lighting as well as incorporating natural cross-ventilation reducing the need for space cooling.

Design + Sustainability Features

+ passive solar efficiency

+ lightweight in construction

+ effective in floor space

Structure

+ plantation timber frame

+ plywood clad

+ aluminium framed louvre windows

+ corrugated steel roof sheeting