This sustainable single family house located in Melbourne, Australia, was designed by Green Sheep Collective.

Description by Green Sheep Collective
The Northcote Solar Home in Melbourne combines high-level environmentally sustainable design with a striking roofscape, contemporary finish, flexibility and a focus on outdoors and family. The client, a family of four, had a brief to create a sustainable home that connected with the garden and accommodated the family’€™s changing needs.
The main challenges were to design a building that had plenty of solar access to all spaces, and to balance a budget between the brief and allowing for sustainable outcomes to be built upon in the future. The design team created a generous three-bedroom dwelling extruded east-west along the block to make the most of available solar access. The resultant unique piece of architecture responds to the site and modern lifestyles, creating beautiful spaces that are flexible in function, naturally lit and ventilated, and connect with the garden seamlessly and creatively.
Creative roof forms for maximum north light:
The raked roof is an economical solution, utilising no more or less than is required to achieve its goals. It acts to provide north light to all spaces and allows natural ‘€˜stack effect’€™ ventilation to further enhance the efficient, sustainable, low energy qualities of the building.
All rooms are bathed in northern light through operable cle...