Coast display home, The Cape

Coast display home, The Cape

Coast is a beautiful, solar powered, 8.1 star NatHERS rated, efficient all-electric home at The Cape, which also features an innovative, highly productive, water efficient Foodcube urban farm and sustainable landscape. Coast was designed by Adam Dettrick Architects and built by TS Constructions, with landscape and urban farm designed and built by The Sustainable Landscape Company. This four bedroom, double storey, 196 square metre home generates a large surplus of clean energy each year, has upgraded from gas appliances to efficient all-electric appliances and has 32 amp charge points for electric vehicle charging. Coast features excellent passive solar design, strategic shading, double glazing, thermal mass, excellent insulation and cross-flow ventilation. Passive solar design, solar energy, efficient all-electric fitout and EV charge points combine to eliminate gas and petrol bills and reduce annual energy bills to close to zero, showcasing the best of carbon neutral Australian housing. The productive Foodcube urban farm is connected to the overflow from the 10,000 litre rainwater tank, and allows for annual production of over 500 kgs of fresh produce per annum, reducing household food bills as well.

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