Gantry House
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House Notes – Gantry House
Gantry House is a project to extend a sweet, but cramped, weatherboard cottage to accommodate a multi-generational family of 7 (+ 2 dogs) and their 21st century lives. The house is robust and easy going with room to work (both parents work from home) and room to live with space to be together, to be by yourself and to share with family + friends.
This house is designed as a house/warehouse/workshop for a family that loves ‘doing’ (cooking, gardening, building) and collecting (pot plants, toys + dogs, art, food, + op-shop treasures). Spaces and nooks throughout the house provide opportunities to use + see the family’s favourite things and cater for life that flows constantly from house to garden and back again.
Sustainability was integral to design considerations and ranged from overall scale and form to layout and material selections. The clients required pleasant living temperatures, natural light and ventilation all year round plus capacity for solar PV panels and hot water (stage 2 work in progress).
This house is a gift by a builder to his family so the construction of the house itself is a source of enjoyment and demonstrates the skills of all the people who built it – including the family themselves – and their highly skilled tradie friends.
Photographed by Tatjana Plitt.
Sustainability Features
- Energy efficiency:
- Draught proofing
Efficient lighting
Efficient appliances
- Passive heating cooling:
- Cross ventilation
External planting
Thermal chimney
- Active heating cooling:
- Ceiling fans
Hydronic
- Active heating cooling:
- High efficiency slow combustion wood stove
- Water heating:
- Hot water heat pump
- Water harvesting and saving features:
- Rainwater storage - Above ground
Stormwater management
- Above ground rainwater storage Type:
- Poly water tanks
- Above ground rainwater storage Size
- 8000L
- Energy Efficient Lighting
- LED lights throughout
Natural daylight
Skylight
- Window Protection:
- Automation/controls
Deciduous tree/vegetation
Drapes/curtains
Eaves
- Sustainable materials:
- Reverse brick veneer construciton with recycled bricks
- Recycled and reused materials:
- Bricks
Paving
- Insulation Type:
- Under-roof
Ceiling
External walls
- Ceiling Type:
- Bulk - glass wool with 80% recycled glass content
- Ceiling Rating:
- R4.0
- Under Roof Insulation Type:
- Foil faced insulation roof blanket
- Under Roof Insulation Rating:
- R1.3
- External Walls Rating:
- R2.7
- External Walls Type:
- Bulk - glass wool with 80% recycled glass content
- All-Electric Home?
- No
- Renewable energy used:
- Solar PV grid connect
- Size of PV system:
- to be confirmed - work in progress
- Total cost of home when constructed:
- $850,000
- House Size
- 260
- BAL Rating
- BAL – Low: There is insufficient risk to warrant specific construction requirements
- Roof
- Metal (Colorbond)
- Wall Materials
- Lightweight construction (timber frame)
Metal (Colorbond)
Reverse Brick veneer
Timber
- Window and Door Types
- Casement
Double glazing
Double hung
Louvre windows
Skylights
Stacking windows/doors
- Universal design accessability
- Multi-generational
- Universal Design Features
- 80cm minimum door opening width
Hobless showers
Lever handles for doors (no knobs)
No Corner cupboards
Window openings easily accessible
- Number of bedrooms
- 5
- Number of bathrooms
- 3
- Garden / Outdoors
- Composting
Edible garden
- Healthy home features
- Carpet free - tiles/concrete/timber flooring throughout
Cross flow ventilation
Indoor plants for air filtration
Natural light and ventilation
- Housing Type:
- Standalone House
- Project Type:
- Renovation
- Builder
- Anthony Adams (Complete Builder's Insight)
- Designer
- OOF! architecture
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