Austin Maynard Architects | Sustainable Residential Architecture

Architecture for a Good Life.

Austin Maynard Architects (AM.A) put people and planet first. The studio is known for design that delivers wellbeing – creating projects that embrace their context, celebrate their inhabitants and don’t shy away from joy. This is what the team have coined the ‘architecture of enthusiasm’.

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Holt

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Holt is a considered intervention that balances the preservation of a significant Edwardian-era terrace with the need for high-performance, sustainable living. An elegant contemporary residential project defined by raw concrete, timber detailing, and soft curved geometries.

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Erindale

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A considered conversion to a beautiful old house, Erindale is a continuation of our intent to strive beyond standard sustainability practices and address the issue of ‘radical sufficiency’ by simply using less.

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Hotham

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On an established suburban street just off the National Circuit, Hotham seeks to slow-down and consider Canberra’s past, present and future built environment. Working to demonstrate the importance of responding to, rather than erasing the cultural and architectural fabric of Australia’s Capital city.

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Greenacres

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Greenacres is Austin Maynard Architects first completed project in New South Wales. Unable to save the original dilapidated house, a new home was constructed on the steep block, a topography that set new and exciting challenges. The varying heights created the opportunity for multiple platforms to view the expansive outlook over the ocean, the Merewether Ocean Baths, and the city of Newcastle.

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A modern multi-storey building with a colorful geometric facade, surrounded by lush trees under a bright blue sky with scattered clouds.

ParkLife 2 is here

Following in the footsteps of the award-winning, highly sustainable ParkLife comes ParkLife 2 – sixty high performance, sustainable apartments nestled into Brunswick’s green spine, enabled by HIP V. HYPE with architecture by Austin Maynard Architects.

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Thornbury House

Multi-Residential, In Construction

The new standard of sustainable density located on the prominent corner of High Street and Rossmoyne Street, Thornbury House is Austin Maynard Architects’ latest vision for the "Missing Middle."

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Terrace House

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An ethical, beautifully-designed, highly sustainable building comprising twenty residences, with 55 bike parks and three commercial spaces at ground level. Austin Maynard Architect’s first multi-residential project as both architect and developer, Terrace House takes a revolutionary approach to housing and delivers quality apartments that are environmentally, socially and financially sustainable.

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Slate House

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Slate House is highly sustainable response to the challenge of creating density within Melbourne’s suburbs. Slate House demonstrates how two land parcels, each with a single dwelling, can be subtly densified to accommodate 14 carefully designed, sustainable, home-sized apartments.

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ParkLife

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Located in Brunswick and set within the Nightingale Village - Australia’s first carbon neutral residential precinct - ParkLife is a high-performing, beautifully designed, community-focused apartment building containing 37 homes and two commercial tenancies.

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$Interior of a modern home with wooden ceiling, wall paneling, and a built-in bookshelf with books. \Green pottery decor is on a wooden ledge, and part of a beige sofa is visible in the foreground.$

The Penthouse

Trading chaos for cohesion: Austin Maynard Architects transforms a dark, disjointed "rabbit warren" into The PentHouse – dissolving walls to reveal continuous views, light and a layout that finally makes sense.

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Clarke

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A family of four, work-from-home professionals and their two teenage daughters, concluded that their living situation was no longer working. Clarke is the renovation and extension of a single-storey weatherboard cottage once void of light, definition, separation and all hope of personal space.

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Parkside

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Parkside is an adaptable and sustainable home intended for aging-in-place. This compact two-storey house realises the owners longstanding retirement plan; to downsize into their own backyard.

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Helvetia

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Helvetia is the alteration and renovation of a double storey Victorian terrace in Fitzroy, Melbourne. Muddled, confused, dark and in a sad state of disrepair, the challenge was to resurrect Helvetia, transforming it into a light-filled family home, with multiple gardens, a flexible floor plan, central entryway and dramatic sunlit atrium.

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Lang 靚

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Lang is a new double storey house that reflects the owners’ vision for “a wellness-enhancing home that is architectural and inspirational.” The design avoids hallways and corridors and maximises potential for open space on a relatively small inner-city sized block.

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Architectural rendering of a modern brick apartment building with rooftop greenery, balconies, street-level shops, trees, cars, and a motorcycle.

Thornbury House

The new standard of sustainable density located on an iconic corner, Thornbury House is Austin Maynard Architects’ latest vision for the "Missing Middle." Responding to the historic streetscape with hand-laid red brick façade, the building is a 100% electric and fossil-fuel-free community.

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Empire House

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Canberra is home to some of the best examples of post-war and modernist architecture in Australia. Empire house is located in a culturally significant and important area of the city, on a ring-road that forms part of architect team Walter Burley and Marion Mahony Griffin’s masterplan.

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Garden House

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The average Australian house uses 19kwh of energy per day. Garden House produces 100kwh per day and has a 26kwh Tesla battery. A high-performing, hi tech, inner-city oasis, Garden House is our most sustainable home yet.

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Terracotta House

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Living in bustling, vibrant Fitzroy, our client asked us to help her with a tree-change, without changing postcode. Her priority was to have a big veggie garden and a farm house, while remaining in the city. With our help, she found an inner suburban cottage with a huge backyard. We built a new home for her at the rear of the block and renovated the original house at the front for her son’s family to live in.

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St Andrews Beach House

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Less than five metres in radius, St Andrews Beach House is an object in the landscape. A Euclidean form set amongst the rough and sandy terrain it provides - in modest form - everything you would need and want in a beach shack. Australians have some of the biggest houses in the world and holiday houses are increasingly becoming carbon copies of the suburban home.

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Cradle Mountain Hotel

Nestled within Tasmania's wilderness, the new Cradle Mountain hotel is a testament to sensitive and purposeful design. The project holds personal significance for directors Andrew Maynard and Mark Austin, both of whom were born, raised, and educated in Tasmania, earning degrees in Environmental Design and Architecture from the University of Tasmania.

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Yarra Bend

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Yarra Bend House is the alteration and addition to a single-fronted terrace cottage in Clifton Hill, Melbourne, with an internal renovation at the front and a new double storey at the rear. In response to the suburb’s heritage overlay, the old part of the house has been externally enhanced and respectfully renewed.

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Tower House

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The clients and their 8 year old twin sons asked for a home “for community, art and nature to come together”. We designed them a village.

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King Bill

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King Bill is a love letter to Fitzroy. King Bill is a collage of Fitzroy’s built history, its textures, its forms, its order and its chaos. The high land values of Fitzroy would encourage many owners to add as much building as possible. Not so for the owners of King Bill. They sought to give something back to the suburb they love. They sought to create a new pocket park.

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Brickface

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When the new build on the block, looks like the oldest building on the laneway. Brickface is a compact building situated at the rear of an existing house in Richmond, Melbourne. It consists of a garage at ground level, studio living/guest suite at first floor, and a roof deck. A new pool and entertaining space extends the home’s entertaining area, while the roof terrace becomes the missing productive garden.

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Modern brick-walled dining room with wood cabinetry, oval table, upholstered chairs, black lounge chair, and floor-to-ceiling windows overlooking a pool

Garden House

Located on a narrow street, lined with long and narrow blocks, in inner-city Melbourne, Garden House is an unexpected oasis. Hidden from the street and accessed via a pedestrian laneway, this new family home sits within lush established greenery.

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Picket House

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Picket House is a two storey addition to a freestanding Edwardian timber house, at the top of a hill in Northcote, Melbourne. The old part of the house has been re-roofed and internally upgraded and now forms the dormitory, with three bedrooms, a study and a bathroom.

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Newry

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A redesigned family home within an existing 90’s shell. Why add a tiny lightwell to your dark, cold Victorian terrace when you can add a conservatory full of warmth, light and plants? The owners of Newry, a family of four, wanted to renovate their single-fronted terrace home in inner-city Melbourne, on a tight budget.

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Union

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At Austin Maynard Architects, we typically throw a lot of playful ideas for our clients to pick from but at Union House we’d met our match. What happens when you put Austin Maynard Architects together with a family of five vibrant and dynamic people with diverse interests, a huge bag of enthusiasm and endless creative suggestions. The answer is Union House.

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RaeRae

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Unconventional but thoroughly logical. Like a German sports car, the beauty of RaeRae’s exterior belies the highly tuned rationalism that generated it. Responsive, contextual and strategic, this is a functional home with nuanced moments of surprise and discovery.

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Lang 靚

The result of exploring “a different sort of mindset,” the design for Lang purposely avoids hallways and corridors and instead maximises potential for open space, natural light and greenery, on a relatively small inner-city sized block.

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Coppin

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This location provides access to established green canopies and northern light, requiring a design that capitalises on these natural assets while maintaining privacy from neighbouring properties. The owners needed a functional, long-term family home with dedicated zones for upcoming teenagers and adults to coexist independently, correcting an awkward existing layout.

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Charles

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Housing affordability, childcare and aged-care offer some of the biggest challenges in Australian society. Austin Maynard Architects proposes an adaptable multi-generational home in their latest project, Charles House.

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Grant

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A hidden cellar, a central garden and a secret room in the roof, Grant House is Austin Maynard Architect’s most recent inner city renovation. Playful, imaginative and future-proofed, it draws on fifteen years experience and experimentation solving the problems posed by dark, narrow and poorly-circulated old terrace houses.

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Dorman

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There are too many beautiful old shacks being demolished, and Austin Maynard Architects won't be part of it. We refused to have yet another Great Ocean Road shack sacrificed and replaced with a McMansion. We refused to be part of the slow erosion of the Great Ocean Road's collective cultural memory. Kate and Grant couldn't agree more.

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St Andrews Beach House

Less than five metres in radius, St Andrews Beach House is an object in the landscape. A Euclidean form set amongst the rough and sandy terrain it provides - in modest form - everything you would need and want in a beach shack.

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Why Diverse Floorplans are the Ultimate Sales Strategy

The typical approach to initial feasibility studies and designing of apartment buildings is to optimise space and typical apartment floor plans – working on the basis of economies of scale. It is seen to be a safe approach – actually, it may be a slightly risky approach because you end up with a monoculture of apartment type and different owner types.

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