2013 Melbourne Design Awards - Key Dates

Architecture - Residential - Proposed

Why Enter

Whether you are a design creator or a design commissioner you can make your mark on the Melbourne design scene by entering the Melbourne Design Awards.

Design Creator
• Gain recognition for your design achievement
• Increase awareness of your work and gain design public and peer comment
• Increased exposure to your potential customers and clients
• Bench mark your work with your peers
• Opportunity to gain national publicity and exposure

Design Commissioner
• Provides a mark of distinction for your product
• Further evidence of excellence in product development
• Bench mark your product with those of your peers
• Increased exposure of your brand / product
• Opportunity to gain national publicity and exposure

Description

This award recognises the design process and product of planning, designing and constructing form, space and ambience that reflect functional, technical, social, and aesthetic considerations. Consideration given for material selection, technology, light and shadow. The project can be a concept, tender or personal project, i.e. proposed space.

Current entries

Beach House : Skin & Shelter

Architecture - Residential - Proposed

Is it a roof ? Is it a wall ? What is it? It blurs boundaries between traditional building elements, so we like to call it ‘skin and shelter’ instead. With a simple gesture - almost like forming a C-shape with your hand - the folded skin protects from being overlooked by neighbours, and from where the elements are harsh. The shelter structure leans over the remnants of an existing 1960’s beach house on the opposite side, completely transforming and absorbing this existing ‘box’ into the new ‘creature’. And in-between? There’s practically nothing, the spaces formed in-between old and new open up front and back, to make the most of the amazing views either end. Just a simple gesture of shelter and skin where it’s needed.

The MDS PassivHaus : Comtemporary Living in an Energy-Positive 10 Star Home

Architecture - Residential - Proposed

No more energy bills - how would you like that? This contemporary family home is designed to be energy positive, i.e. over the course of a year it generates more energy than it would use. Building an energy positive house means you can start billing your energy supplier, rather than the other way around. Isn’t that fantastic? So how does that work? Mostly good design based on passive solar design principles, and some clever tricks added into the mix. The foundations are simple : (1) Create a comfortable living environment, that uses little energy to heat or cool, and (2) Create energy to offset the little bit that you are using, or for positive gearing. Living spaces and bedrooms are facing north, using free and everlasting solar heat to make it nice and cosy. A services and amenities ‘block’ along the south side acts as thermal buffer. Almost following modernist traditions, these two distinct functions (living and services) generate the architectural form. Balancing social, economic and environmental sustainability has been the driver for the design. Combined with the contemporary form and simple material palette, this results in a beautiful and truly sustainable home.

Multi-Res Backyard Development : High End & High Quality

Architecture - Residential - Proposed

Designing 12 luxurious town houses, we set out to prove that a commercially driven backyard development can be both exciting and of substantial size and revenue at the same time : A sustainable community that offers the residents convenience, lifestyle and spectacular city views. Within walking distance of the CBD, each house has ample of space, individual backyards and additional access to communal gardens. Special features like grand roof terraces, private water garden balconies from the master suite, exclusive interiors, theatre rooms, glass lifts, individual car parking with direct house access, and many more, make it a very unique development. A gem in the city that offers a lifestyle of luxury…