Simple Dwelling

A YouTube channel that is devoted to simple design and living, taking you inside homes that bring stillness and simplicity to your life.

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BRD Studio designed a compact off-grid home in Wooragee, Victoria, focusing on biophilic design principles.
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Moving over to Threads, if you are active over there, be sure to follow @simple_dwelling.

Won’t be tweeting from this account for the foreseeable future.

Thanks.

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“I wanted to create a house where family and nature are connected or overlap within a space. I wanted families to be connected, not divided by walls due to an overemphasis on privacy.” - Katsutoshi Sasaki
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Katsutoshi Sasaki realised one of his dreams as an architect, to design his own home for his family.
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“I always try to create a delightful architecture that allows people to feel connected to nature, even in dense urban areas." - Norihisa Kawashima
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The clients of this home in Ichinomiya City, Japan, came to Nori Architects wanting their new home to be bright and connected to nature, having previously lived in a traditional Japanese minka.
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"People in apartments tend to live a bit smaller, and I think wrapping their head around the fact that you actually can't have everything that you might want in an apartment can also help people to just live a little bit more modestly." - Ben Shields
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Located in Brunswick is 388 Barkly Street, an apartment development designed by DREAMER in collaboration with Breathe, which looked to create apartments that would encourage family living.
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"The idea was to create a highly sustainable home, but also a very playful and fun and adventurous house. Something that we could use as a showcase to show people what is a Passive House, how does a Passive House work?" - Marc Bernstein
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There is a reason most residential blocks are rectangular, so imagine coming across a triangular site that is wedged between a train line and a laneway.
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"Fireside House is successful in marrying two of the client's key aspirations for the project a food lover's kitchen that is the heart of the house and a desire to live more sustainably." - Emily McBain
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When your architect centres the design of your home renovation around pizza, nothing can go wrong.
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"Every design decision that we made throughout the process kept coming back to that simple design that they were after. They wanted it to feel relaxing. They wanted it to feel like a sanctuary." - Jane Merrylees
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Tucked behind a modest Victorian cottage is a minimalist extension with an interior that brings a sense of peace and tranquillity.
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"That reevaluation of the brief, and considering how much you really needed to build, is a tremendous contribution to the sustainability aspects of the project." - Madeline Sewall
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Claire and her family started their journey of extending a Victorian terrace in Port Melbourne shortly before moving to Denmark; however, time spent in a small apartment showed that they didn't need that much space.
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If you want to hear more, and learn about other design principles, follow the link below to my YouTube channel.

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Sustainability does not need to be complex; rather, a simple approach can result in your home being cheaper to run, healthier, more comfortable to live in, and respectful of the climate and kinder to the planet.

Here are five principles of a sustainable house.

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Sustainability isn't a one-size-fits-all approach, where if you can't achieve everything, you can't deem it sustainable. You might find you can't achieve the ideal orientation, so look to compensate with better insulation.