Ideas for affordable and sustainable housing design Ideas for affordable and sustainable housing design Ideas for affordable and sustainable housing design Ideas for affordable and sustainable housing design Ideas for affordable and sustainable housing design Ideas for affordable and sustainable housing design Ideas for affordable and sustainable housing design Ideas for affordable and sustainable housing design

“Hello, We provide creative thinking design and highly skilled drafting of buildings, renovations and interiors.

We believe in making everyday interactions and experiences better. Unique, functional, affordable, and sustainable design that enriches our lives, community, environment and future.

If you have a project you need help with, we’d love to hear from you.

Contact Grant on 0409110082 or grant@grantwilliamsdesign.com.au”

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Projects

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    Scarborough Townhouse Development
    Approved and ready to be built, the Scarborough Townhouses are three 2 storey with rooftop terraces, on two residential blocks. The brief was for a development that was sensitive to the environment, multifunctional, and contempary. The buildings work on a small footprint with lightweight building materials. It is a passive solar design with awnings and …
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    Landcorp Small Housing Design Comp
    This plan was developed for a small housing design competition. The focus was on creating a smaller footprint, therefore reducing the buildings materials and resources consumed, create interesting spaces and deliver a cost effective home. The design is compact with an open plan design, the living and sleeping spaces are orientated to the north to give shading …
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    Warana Renovation
    This was an original beachside Warana brick veneer home that has been renovated to increase the living areas and provide an open plan. The internal layout has changed with an existing bedroom being relocated into the garage to provide additional living space and the rear extended to provide an open plan meals and kitchen area that leads onto …
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Clients

“Working with Grant on our plans was more collaborative than we ever could have hoped. He wasn’t at all precious about his original design and was more than happy to incorporate changes and feedback. He was also kind enough not to point out every time we came full circle and realised he’d been right all along! The builder and various trades people were very impressed with the detail of the plans and as a result much less was left to chance. We are so happy with the results, a perfectly weighted modern addition to our traditional fibro beach shack. We can’t wait to get moving on stage 2.”
Julian and Caroline Porter, Maroochydore
We have worked with Grant on a number of various projects and have found him to be easy to communicate and deal with, he is able to develop designs that meet the brief of requirements and exceed our expectations. Grant has creative ideas that are buildable along with excellent construction documentation and presentation skills. We have no hesitation in highly recommending his services to others.
Ian Wayth, Director, Laguna Constructions
“This project was our first time in a new build and it has been a thoroughly wonderful  experience. Grant came with us on our first site meeting where my wife and I  talked about the vague concepts of what we might like by way of design. He has managed to combine his careful attentive skills with his clever design experience and came up with the initial plans from which we have made only minor cosmetic changes to right up to building completion. I think we have been very fortunate to find an architect  to have been so considerate of our thoughts and come up with a very delightful design. We would have no hesitation in recommending Grant and hope to work with him again in the future.”
Jenny and Graeme Hart, Bardon

Blog

Ideas for affordable and sustainable housing design

Here are some ideas I apply when designing affordable and sustainable housing. Affordable housing doesn’t have to be boring it’s about being smart in the design process. Fundamentally, it’s firstly all about orientating the living areas to the north and minimising the building walls and windows and locating service areas to the west. A generous …

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The Design Brief

Can a design solution only be as good as the brief supplied by the clients? The more detailed the design brief, the better the design solution and outcome.  I think there is a large percentage of people that design and draw up their own house plan without really delving deeper into it. Building is such …

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Strawbale Building

The construction industry is one of the biggest contributors to global warming and it puts a huge demand on our natural resources, making our current way of living unsustainable. Building with straw and natural materials isn’t new, straw, earth and timber have been used for shelter for thousands of years. When baling equipment was invented …

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Sunshine Coast Building Design

Sunshine Coast building design is about capturing the feel of the natural local environment and creating a design that works with the environment and the clients brief. Building design is about working with the local site, orienting the building to the north to capture the natural light, creating overhangs or hoods to shade from the …

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