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Location
Port Melbourne
Builder
SK Projects
Landscape
Full Potential Landscapes
Photographer
Shantanu Starick
Harvest House transforms a modest weatherboard terrace by opening it to light, air and the garden. The clients came to the project with a deep love of food and wine, and a strong desire to grow as much of their own produce as possible. Inspired by Joost’s Future Food House, they wanted a home that made growing, cooking and sharing food part of daily life.
A new central courtyard and a series of smaller garden pockets weave greenery through the plan, bringing nature and light into the whole house. Instead of relying solely on the backyard, the house now opens to the outdoors from multiple points, offering moments of outlook, calm and connection.
Passive solar design, abundant natural light and cross ventilation shape the home’s quieter comforts. Materials follow a natural and circular approach: recycled timbers, sustainable MDF joinery, stainless steel benchtops and hardware, and low-VOC paints used throughout.
The building is now entirely electric, no gas. Sustainability features include an induction cooktop, a domestic hot water heat pump, a 3500L rainwater tank tucked beneath the deck, productive gardens and a 6kW solar array. Thermal upgrades to the existing structure bring the house up to contemporary performance standards, with high-performance double glazing, new insulation to modified external walls, and improved insulation to internal walls and roof space.
Harvest House is a simple idea: bring the garden in, let natural systems do the work, and create a home where growing and sharing food is part of the architecture.
We acknowledge the Bunurong Boon Wurrung and Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung peoples, the Traditional Custodians of the land upon which Harvest House stands. We recognise their continuing connection to land, waters and culture.
Harvest House transforms a modest weatherboard terrace by opening it to light, air and the garden. The clients came to the project with a deep love of food and wine, and a strong desire to grow as much of their own produce as possible. Inspired by Joost’s Future Food House, they wanted a home that made growing, cooking and sharing food part of daily life.
A new central courtyard and a series of smaller garden pockets weave greenery through the plan, bringing nature and light into the whole house. Instead of relying solely on the backyard, the house now opens to the outdoors from multiple points, offering moments of outlook, calm and connection.
Passive solar design, abundant natural light and cross ventilation shape the home’s quieter comforts. Materials follow a natural and circular approach: recycled timbers, sustainable MDF joinery, stainless steel benchtops and hardware, and low-VOC paints used throughout.
The building is now entirely electric, no gas. Sustainability features include an induction cooktop, a domestic hot water heat pump, a 3500L rainwater tank tucked beneath the deck, productive gardens and a 6kW solar array. Thermal upgrades to the existing structure bring the house up to contemporary performance standards, with high-performance double glazing, new insulation to modified external walls, and improved insulation to internal walls and roof space.
Harvest House is a simple idea: bring the garden in, let natural systems do the work, and create a home where growing and sharing food is part of the architecture.
Location
Port Melbourne
Builder
SK Projects
Landscape
Full Potential Landscapes
Photographer
Shantanu Starick
We acknowledge the Bunurong Boon Wurrung and Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung peoples, the Traditional Custodians of the land upon which Harvest House stands. We recognise their continuing connection to land, waters and culture.
Always was, always will be Aboriginal land. Breathe acknowledges the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin Nation, the Traditional Custodians of the land upon which Breathe stands. We pay our respects to their Elders, past and present.
