Housing is responsible for 10% of our national emissions and in 2023 we Australians spent over $1billion per month on renovations. Since the building stock of today will be here for the next half century, we need innovative, collaborative and regenerative models to meet our climate ambitions and make sure our 10 million existing homes are healthy, affordable, resilient climate solutions: a renovation wave to reset and repair.
Say hello to Laura Ryan and The ImPossible House: turning an old workers’ cottage in Sydney’s inner west into a fully off-grid sustainable house, documenting the whole project so anyone can copy it.
Through this 4 year (and counting) project, The ImPossible House team aims to:
– Provide a free step-by-step guide for anyone wanting to renovate sustainably in urban areas.
– Demonstrate that a sustainable home can be inner-city cool and doesn’t have to look like a hippy log cabin
– Document all the costs, my mistakes and successes – I’ll make the mistakes so you don’t have to!
– Minimise costs – I want sustainable living to be accessible to everyone
Join us for this free interactive online session hosted by Passive House Designer and Architect Simone Schenkel, and Sonja Markovic, Co-founder of Evitat.
