What is Recipe Housing®?
Recipe Housing® is a Design and Construction approach by Sustainable that considers elements of the building site and building pods as “ingredients” for truly sustainable Homes.
Just like baking a recipe, Recipe Housing® adapts the ratios of site and design ‘ingredients’ to respond to each site and Client requirements.
Butter, sugar, flour, eggs, and milk. With these 5 ingredients you can make a range of baked goods, such as pancakes, waffles, cookies or cake. How? Simply by adjusting the ingredient ratios!
5 Design Principles of the Recipe Housing® Approach
- Site Specific. Designs respect the site, work with the existing topography and utilise views/vistas. Particular consideration is given to the orientation of the building in order to maximise overall environmental performance.
- Individual. Designs reflect individual wants and needs (current and future).
- Environmentally Responsible. Designs utilise sustainable materials and seek to minimise waste.
- Optimal Performance for the Life Cycle. Designs consider universal design principles to ensure long term access. Material choice considers long-term maintenance. Designs offer flexibility and adaptability to provide multi-functional living spaces.
- Attainable and Affordable. The Design and Build are time and cost effective, and sustainable elements within the home provide long-term cost savings on energy consumption. Home owners save money now and into the future.
Why select the Recipe Housing® Approach?
The Recipe Housing® approach delivers a range of benefits that can be applied to a single home build, cluster of residential homes on the one block, or a community development. These benefits are best summed up as:
- Flexible. Pod approach means the size and placement of pods can be adjusted to meet site constraints and maximise sustainability outcomes for years to come.
- Economic Outlay. Recipe Housing® seeks to sit within the existing environment, reducing the need for initial earth works and retaining walls, and the design approach of the pods creates excellent economy of materials.
- Time Efficient. Pod approach allows for rapid builds meaning you are in your home sooner!
- Individual. No two sites are the same; no two families are the same; and therefore, no two Recipe Homes are the same! In addition to designing to fit to the site, Recipe Housing® offers a buyers a range of pod configurations, exterior facades, and roofing.
- Economic Running Costs. The embedded sustainable Design of Recipe Housing® reduces the living costs over the life cycle of the home.
Ultimately, the Sustainable Recipe Housing® approach adapts to your site and preferences no matter how difficult or varied, offering affordable bespoke homes and communities that respond to their environment and delivering high environmental performance over a 25-year life cycle.
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