Corvette Concretehaus

An “uninsulated concrete box” built as part of the 1956 Olympic athletes’ village wouldn’t sound like a dream home for many, but after looking for a long time, Alex Childs and Aiden Varan jumped at the chance to buy this fixer-upper in Heidelberg West, Melbourne. “It had enough land for our chooks, ducks, and food production,” says Aiden. Fans of the high-performance Passive House standard and the only slightly less rigorous EnerPHit standard for renovations, they were interested to see whether it could be done on their “tired old concrete beast”. Stripping the house back by removing the floor, ceiling, roof and several internal walls, the couple rejigged the layout slightly, added cathedral ceilings, and paid particular attention to airtight membranes and draught-proofing. Outside, they applied a layer of rendered…

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