Tuesday, January 16, 2018

Heritage-listed church repurposed into modern solar-powered home in Brisbane

Brisbane-based architecture studio DAHA merged old and new with the Church House, an eye-catching modern home and adaptive reuse project. The unusual combination attaches a sleek structure of concrete, steel, and glass to a brick church, known as the Church of Figuration that was built in 1924. While the church’s position wasn’t moved, the architects carefully positioned the new-build based on climatic site conditions and to optimize passive heating and cooling and conditions for a photovoltaic...

from Inhabitat - Green Design, Innovation, Architecture, Green Building https://inhabitat.com/heritage-listed-church-repurposed-into-modern-solar-powered-home-in-brisbane
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