2022 – BDAA National Design Awards
National Design Excellence Award
Winner
Reece Keil – Hidden Haven
Reece Keil Design
Hidden Haven by Reece Keil is the Overall Winner of this year’s BDAA National Design Awards. This lavish homestead is indeed a haven of modern day luxury living.
From sustainably lavishly appointed walls and floors to lovely furnishings, this is indeed a haven in the purest sense.
Massive in scale and lovely in look, this is indeed a heavenly home.
Chris Reardon Memorial Award for Sustainable Buildings
Winner
Ashley Beaumont – Moonshadow 2
Beaumont Building Design
Ashley Beaumont won the Chris Reardon Memorial Award for Sustainable Buildings for Moonshadow 2. Perfect for the modern family, the Moonshadow project features polished concrete floors and exposed brick to give an industrial aesthetic. which is offset by the warmth of the exterior timber cladding.
The home features three spacious bedrooms, two bathrooms, study and seamless open plan living. Optimising the natural northern light and making best use of cross ventilation, the home is changing the way we think about affordable sustainable homes.
The home adopts passive solar design features to achieve an 8.4-star energy efficiency rating. A central volume takes full advantage of the north orientation and thermal mass creating a comfortable internal temperature year-round. Transparency and openness allow for abundant natural light to permeate internal spaces.
The intent of the interior design reflects contemporary coastal living. Exterior and Interior specifications for this striking home have been curated to deliver a luxurious lifestyle, sustainably.
Chris Reardon Memorial Award for Sustainable Buildings
Commendation
Michael Drage – Chifley Semi
reimagined habitat
Michael Drage earned a Commendation in the Chris Reardon Memorial Award for Sustainable Buildings category for Chifley Semi. Chifley semi showcases the lateral thinking, design capabilities and ability to blend design and energy efficiency that differentiates our practice.
This retrofit is intended as an exemplar to other owners of ex Government homes and to the Governement itself to reuse.
The ability to retrofit to reduce the embodied and operational carbon footprint, whilst updating and modernising living spaces, can be done at a fraction of the monetary and environmental cost, whilst also providing a financial return.
Chris Reardon Memorial Award for Sustainable Buildings
Commendation
Esther James – Auntie’s Hut
4305 Design
Esther James earned a Commendation in the Chris Reardon Memorial Award for Sustainable Buildings category for Auntie’s Hut.
This little shelter is grounded firmly in the landscape. Superbly energy efficient (9.1 stars!), the home celebrates the subtropical lifestyle, collects winter sun in all the right places, and is packed with accessible features.
Both lovingly homey and incredibly ecofriendly!
Architectural Window Systems
Commendation
Brad Read – Vitality Village
BRD Group
Vitality Village earned Brad Read a Commendation in the Architectural Window Systems category. Vitality Village is where innovative health and wellness providers call ‘home’. A ‘Village’ where enterprises share knowledge for the community benefits.
The final development allows the ‘Villagers’ to work collaboratively alongside each other to contribute, inspire and achieve more than they could alone. Vitality Village is an innovative response to the community’s health and wellness needs.
Its unique design will become a model for future similar developments.
Thermal Design Excellence Award
Winner
James Cross – The Green House Perth
Northern Aspect Energy Consultants
James Cross’ The Green House Perth won the Thermal Design Excellence Award category. This outcome was a collaboration between a young award winning architect in Janik Dalecki from Dalecki Designs and James Cross of Northern Aspect Energy Consultants. The goal was to take a small family size house on a standard inner city suburban block and aim for the stars…………… with a final outcome of 9.8 stars and a preliminary outcome of 10 stars this house was as much a passion project as it was family home design.
The house was completed recently and the home owners are more than happy. The home owners commented that during the recent cold spell in Perth they were comfortable enough to wear a light jumper and pants without any heating added to the house. They also run the ceiling fans in the Bedroom during winter as the room can actually get too hot.
The Green House proves that high star ratings really do equal lower running costs for the home and can be achieved on small suburban blocks, when the focus is on the right design for the right block and right budget.
New residential buildings
(up to $500,000)
WINNER
Ashley Beaumont
Moonshadow 2
COMMENDATION
Kirstie Wulf
Hempcrete Retreat
New residential buildings
($500,000 to $750,000)
WINNER
Benjamin Mulholland
Bird Rock Residence
New residential buildings
($750,000 to $1.0m)
WINNER
Chris McCabe
Oceanic
New residential buildings
($1.0m to $1.5m)
WINNER
Reece Keil
Hidden Haven
COMMENDATION
Dick Clarke
PurePassiv
New residential buildings
($1.5m to $2.0m)
WINNER
Reece Keil
Villa Capri
New residential buildings
(over $2.0m)
WINNER
Arana Wallenhoffer
Annandale House
COMMENDATION
Tony Taouk
Augusta Street Residence
Winning Design Magazine
Building Designers Association of Australia is proud to announce the National Design Awards Winning Design commemorative annual magazine. The 2021 edition, electronic book, turning page version.
PLEASE CLICK the front page image at left to view.