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Chifley Semi
Commendation
Chris Reardon Memorial Award for Sustainable Buildings
CHIFLEY SEMI
Designer: Michael Drage
Practice: Reimagined Habitat Web: reimaginedhabitat.com.au
DESIGN
Reimagined habitat is a boutique building and interior design firm specialising in energy-efficient home design. Led by Passive Home Designer, Michael Drage, and based in Canberra and Sydney, our team of highly skilled, recognised practitioners encompasses architecture, engineering, building and interior design plus energy modelling and coaching.
Our name is our mission: we build, and support the building of, better, smarter homes.
We are delighted to be recognised for our work on the Chifley Semi which showcases the lateral thinking, design capabilities and ability to blend design and energy efficiency that differentiates our practice.
We intend to use this retrofit as an exemplar to the other owners of ex Government homes and to the Government itself to reuse, rather than knock down and start again. The ability to retrofit to reduce the embodied and operational carbon footprint, whilst updating and modernising living spaces, can be done at a fraction of the monetary and environmental cost, whilst also providing a financial return.
This was a huge team effort, and I would like to thank all of those who contributed.
