Architect Designs a Sustainable Tree Home Made From Recycled Materials (House Tour)

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We hope you enjoyed the very first episode of The Sustainability Series on The Local Project, Pepper Tree Passive House by Alexander Symes & Souter Built. For more of the latest and greatest in architecture, interior design and house tours, make sure to subscribe to our tri-annual hardcopy print publication - thelocalproject.com.au/subscribe

[@HelloAnthony]

Either the best architecture in the world is happening in Australia or the best architectural journalists are in Australia. I don't know which, but whatever it is, Australia is simply knocking it out of the park (sorry, I don't know any equivalent rugby idioms) with their architecture and reporting. Bravo!

[@sabinereinert6337]

I second that feeling! Hello from Germany!

[@blue3994]

If you look into the Country of birth you will find Most top Australian architects are born in New Zealand and later crossed the ditch to help out our deer Aussie neighbours The same goes with our top horses Sweet cakes And coaches kiwi kiwi kiwi

[@BaDazai]

Australia and New Zealand has amazing architecture in recent time, be it in high or low density areas. Wish more people in my country could be as creative and thoughtful. We have some of the most horrible architecture in the world I think, I'm in Zambia.

[@lachlanjwoods]

The most important thing here is to clarify that Rugby is not our national sport. That would be AFL, Australian Rules Football. And for every amazing house that is built here, developers continue to build awful unliveable apartments and villages of giant soulless and unsustainable houses. It’s a mixed bag. If only more houses, architects and builders were like this one!

[@HelloAnthony]

@@lachlanjwoods Noted. Honestly, I kinda cringed at the idea of using a sports comment, but it was really the only thing I could come up with in the moment. After a couple decades of listening to TripleJ and several months of streaming Bluey with my toddler, I should’ve been able to come up with something Aussie related! 🤦🏻‍♂️😁

[@pickuptrash]

Passive houses are awesome. There is so much energy saving potential if they would become the norm + the design is astonishing!

[@chronic_daydreamer]

I can’t believe that this house around the corner from my place in a crappy suburb like mine has been featured on this channel and Never Too Small. Crazy world!

[@pamelahuff1268]

Literally have never seen anything more beautiful.

[@maryjames8145]

Love this design. Sustainable living should be the new mantra in any design build.

[@PareWorks]

I'm seriously loving the slower pace in these last few tours! thank you so much the local project.

[@mrvk39]

I LOVE how the house looks from the outside! It's just something out of Tolkien novel. I cannot say I love the interiors - it's too busy in terms of textures for my taste combining recycled bricks with plywood. But, it's a lovely concept! I really like how solar panels were made into canopy - it looks cool!

[@littlenest]

The house is gorgeous but that deck under the tree is absolutely magnificent, imagine what the late-night hangouts out there must be like! ❤

[@snowwhite-jt9cj]

It’s such good idea build the architecture with the tree🌳 . )

[@lululand1653]

Absolutely stunning, we all need passive houses.

[@darien33]

Estupenda reconversión.

[@ximonwhhatt3796]

Heck yes! I freaking love sustainable architecture. Thank you guys for making a series! Seriously

[@JJ_439]

Stunning! The material selection is beautiful and the tree is a magnificent centre piece. Australia's (awful) housing stock is in good hands with architects and builders like this creating a better vision for the future.

[@juli1037]

Unpretentious and gorgeous!

[@freechurros]

Never seen OSB used so beautifully! 😮

[@nate-tz8sx]

Wow I used to go to parts at Amy's dads place in Gosnels WA ,really nice girl glad too see she's doing well ,great stuff Ame 😀

[@amerooke-jones9294]

Hey Nate! So awesome you watched our video!!! What a small world hahahah

[@nate-tz8sx]

Yeah actually watch this channel a lot and then I said to the misses " I know her " haha awesome house mate and congrats on the family

[@amerooke-jones9294]

@@nate-tz8sx hahaha that’s amazing!!! Thanks so much for watching!

[@julsz.mmviii]

Absolutely beautiful, now my favourite💯❤

[@Robodroidalien]

Gorgeous.

[@alexeypochevalov7063]

Very, very beautiful H(osb)use! 👍👍👍

[@northtosouthmedia]

Incredible! Incredible!!!

[@teganlerm5609]

AHHH i'm so excited!!

[@cdtzabcan]

Beautifully designed and built but that OSB is killing me 😳

[@fldaniel7]

Very inspiring What a beautiful place

[@ewmagency]

Those bricks are stunning!

[@ramonburchell6366]

Love the originality of some of the design considerations & materials

[@oceanandthings1130]

Oooh what a design 😍😍it’s incredible

[@vaahbesh5475]

omg this is breath taking😍

[@yoga_iaini]

what a beauty💚🌳

[@mitravinda7330]

This is heavenly!

[@TheBosun21]

That is so inspiring!!! Amazing!

[@Common_Sense_fan]

This looks okay, from the one single space that we kept seeing. I like the different type bricks because it makes so much sense and brings so much character when you use any brick you can find basically and they still work.

[@MediaTribeUSAAus]

Pure goodness all round. Beautiful!

[@ErikaHamilton1]

Awesome congratulations.

[@Su-jb2zr]

Sustainable, stunning, simple and satisfying! ❤ this

[@donnaoz5502]

Well Done Team ~ stunning

[@barneymd12]

Unbelievably beautiful… well done 👏🏼 👏🏼👏🏼 Drinking Pumpkin Pie Chai Tea ☕️ for this…

[@raysville7256]

Finally, someone with the guts to use OSB as an interior finish

[@sparklepea]

There was a recent project on Living Big In A Tiny House that used OSB in the interiors too

[@filausopoako]

Great idea. Should be incorporated in new builts.

[@amirfaridsabuddin9599]

love it soo much!

[@OrendaDesignStudio]

This is amazing 🥰🥰🥰.

[@happyhappyaus2128]

Would love to see a video on Habitat in Byron Bay, wonderful sustainable development :)

[@rajasharjeel6667]

Great work 👍

[@omiomardreamer0929]

Beautiful

[@danaesquires7571]

Love it.

[@willbass2869]

A very clean sleek job. Nice subdued entry via stairs. Love the struts holding the solar cells above the windows☝️ Great bricks and use of them as back splash and flooring. Not a fan of "living roofs". Just dirt, grass and bugs to me....

[@cristinahash6642]

I'd really love to know what wood was used on the outside of the structure, both light and dark. Thanks :)

[@slangyrussianwords5972]

Great

[@BC-wo5sc]

What legends!

[@beefyogurt]

please include the music used, in the description

[@concerned_not_alarmed5244]

Crazy good

[@bybongo6637]

I’m creating a series on sustainable buildings in my city and will take a lot of inspiration from this channel! If you got tips please leave ‘em

[@abhigyan10apr]

Just one question. If the tree needs to be trimmed, how would that be done?

[@hicksy6565]

i would like to see the waste or left over materials from a project like this

[@deirdresiegel7707]

Brilliant… great, go you all, alas…, I would like everyone who thought wrapping the tree in solar lights to spend one week wrapped in wires of in solar lights, just to experience the sensation before inflicting the process on another living breathing creature.

[@PostImperfect]

Can anyone say what the brand of kitchen tap is please?

[@adamsouter6103]

Wood Melbourne

[@kk-wl2yg]

Is this OSB inside?!

[@mlc2158]

🙏🏼😍

[@manto2984]

the shape of the house is fantastic but the interior is disappointing

[@martin8313]

It's a showcase for a construction company, not for an architect

[@hannd5732]

🎉

[@martin8313]

All the OSB in the interior looks like a placeholder

[@liyanlonglaoshi]

what if the trees die?

[@andrew4809]

Love this termite infested shack

[@paranoidhumanoid]

Everything about this home is amazing, but the raw strand board is nauseating. Why?!

[@loursfloral5409]

A tree feeds itself by losing its leaves on the ground. With the house it can't.

[@rawfishly]

A project about saving the tree and the first thing you see is these terrible lights all around the “saved” tree. 😢

[@elli_art]

Меня удивляет, почему к видео нет субтитров на русском?

[@okra3000]

Creative structure but the plywood interior is extremely tacky.

[@hotam138]

There is no unique or valuable highlights in interiors

[@elli_art]

А мне не понравился проект. Текстуры интерьера давят, много недоработок снаружи. Дом смахивает на деревенский, но не дотягивает по стилю.

[@hman9581]

What a strange house. Not really architecture, more of a building of parts.

[@shinvergil]

Sustainability this, sustainability that, sustain sustainable sustainability. Cut the crap.

[@AAAAAAndreyAndreev]

JESUUUUS all of them are pretentious AF