The Ridge Road Residence Fuses Energy Efficiency and Contemporary Design in Australia

<a href="http://studiofournews.com/">Studio Four</a>'s Ridge Road Residence is a sustainable home with a blackened timber facade set on a dramatic site outside of Melbourne, Australia. The home's simple volumetric spaces harness green building strategies to make the overall project very energy-efficient. The modern residence features open-plan living areas that allow for flexibility and cost-effective construction, while contemporary black and white colored materials create an eloquent interior environment.

As the architects put it, the design of the Ridge Road Residence was inspired to provide “a sense of sanctuary, enclosure and comfort”. The home is designed on a series of levels that cascade down the sloping site.

This split-level design provides a connection to the landscape while also providing the homeowners with varied levels of privacy. The street level façade of the home is modest in nature and is surrounded by native landscaping, which helps to blend the home into the landscape.

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The interior of the Ridge Road Residence is a well lit by the floor-to-ceiling glazing that is incorporated into all the living spaces of the home.

All windows and doors are double glazed with high performance glass to provide a sustainable solution to maximizing the daylighting of the home.

Another sustainable feature related to the windows of this home is the use of concrete floors and thick block walls to create thermal mass for the home.

Most of the windows are also operable which maximizes natural ventilation.

The contemporary black and white colored materials also create beautiful and eloquent interiors.

The modern look of the interiors keeps the imagery simple and eloquent so that the natural surroundings take a higher priority in the design aesthetic of each rooms views.