A sustainable home designed to last

Gothic Parade – 2010 Master Builders Victoria Award Winner

This sustainable home demonstrates how thoughtful design and quality construction can create a home that performs as beautifully as it looks. Through energy-efficient building principles, carefully selected materials and passive home design, the Gothic Parade project has been crafted for year-round comfort, durability and modern family living. The result is a home that not only responds to its environment but also delivers lasting value through sustainable construction and exceptional craftsmanship.

Gothic Parade was recognised at the 2010 Master Builders Victoria Awards, winning the Small Lot Housing Award and being named a finalist for the Sustainable Living Award. Presented by Master Builders Victoria, these awards recognise excellence in residential construction. This recognition highlights Tremul Constructions’ commitment to quality craftsmanship, innovative design and sustainable building practices.

The brief for this architecturally designed home was to retain the ethos of the original 80’s one bedroom shack, keep as much of the endemic vegetation as possible, provide a great multi age holiday retreat for their extended family and make it as flexible and sustainable as possible, all on a 356 sq m block and within a limited budget.

The answer was to go up to create a three to four bedroom house.

Extensive measures were taken during construction to retain vegetation with the resulting three storey home built around a courtyard of preserved mature trees. The home has incredible cross ventilation, and heavily insulated walls and ceilings. The weatherproofed internal stairs, which stretch up the 11 metre building, have recyclable polycarbonate sheeting to let in light and a shuttered veranda on the top level facing the trees. The home has social as well as environmental sustainability with the design allowing for disabled access and a lift when required.