Designing Healthy Homes for Healthy Lives
As Passive House designers in Australia, we create healthy, high-performance homes that respond to climate, comfort and long-term building performance.
Specialising in sustainable and healthy building design, we design Passive House and high-performance homes across Australia, using one of the world’s most stringent energy efficient design standards to inform our designs relative to circumstances and budgets. Our belief is that a home should primarily ‘live well’, yet touch the earth lightly and inspire through design.
We have one of the largest cohorts of Certified Passive House Designers in Australia. Our team is a blend of experienced designers and graduates who bring fresh perspectives to the thinking and visualisation of our projects. The combination of experience and unbridled design thinking creates strong outcomes for our clients.
We offer a complete interior and building design service for home improvements and new construction, specialising in energy efficient, high-performance homes across Australia.
With team members based in Melbourne, Sydney, Canberra and the south coast of NSW, we work with clients across the country, delivering homes that respond to local conditions and perform over the long term.
Our Vision is to help everyone live in a healthy, beautiful, energy efficient and sustainable home.
We’re proud to announce the launch of our pre-designed Net Zero Habitat Homes. Designed as flexible, high-performance spaces, they are ideal for granny flats, secondary dwellings, AirBnB accommodation, or family homes. Developed using Passive House principles and prefabricated construction methods, several designs can achieve a 10-star energy rating across most Australian climate zones — delivering exceptional comfort while using virtually no energy for heating and cooling.
Register for a
FREE 30-minute design consultation
What You’ll Gain in 30 Minutes
During your complimentary 30-minute design consultation, we will:
Discuss your goals, vision, and the potential of your site
Explore options for new builds, renovations, granny flats, or prefab solutions
Identify opportunities to improve comfort, performance, and long-term value
Highlight potential risks or costly mistakes to avoid
Explain how Passive House principles may apply to your project
Provide clear next steps so you leave with direction and confidence
This is not a sales presentation. It is a focused and practical conversation designed
to give you clarity about the path forward.
Consultations are available via Teams or phone, depending on your preference.
Limited Availability
Only four complimentary consultation sessions are available each month
(valued at $200).
Select a time in the calendar below to begin exploring the possibilities for your future home.
Turn uncertainty into a clear and confident plan.
Ready to Reimagine Your Home?
Are you considering building a new home that is comfortable, healthy, and designed to perform beautifully throughout the year?
You may also be exploring whether Passive House principles could transform your existing home into a space that is warmer in winter, cooler in summer, and significantly more energy efficient.
Perhaps you are looking at options for a secondary dwelling or granny flat to increase flexibility or rental potential. You may also be curious about whether prefab or panelised construction could offer a smarter, faster, and more cost-effective building solution.
With current market conditions constantly shifting, it is understandable to feel uncertain about where to begin, what budget to plan for, or whether now is the right time to move forward.
Clarity makes all the difference.
This is an opportunity to step back, ask the right questions, and explore what is truly possible for your site, your budget, and your lifestyle.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF COUNTRY
reimagined habitat acknowledges the First Peoples of this nation and their ongoing connection to culture and country. We recognize First Nations Peoples as the Traditional Owners, Custodians, and Lore Keepers of the world’s oldest living culture and pay our respects to their Elders, past, present, and emerging.
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Download Your FREE Healthy Home Guide Book
Live Well. Build Better.
Your home should support your health, comfort, and wellbeing — not leave you feeling cold, uncomfortable, or overwhelmed.
Created in collaboration with Efficient Habitat, this free guide brings together practical advice, building science, and real-world experience to help you create a healthier home. Whether you’re building, renovating, or simply looking to improve the space you already live in, this guide is packed with useful and actionable insights.
✨ Learn about:
✔ Indoor air quality & ventilation
✔ Thermal comfort & insulation
✔ Healthy, low-tox materials
✔ Natural light & wellbeing
✔ Noise reduction & better sleep
✔ Biophilic design & connection to nature
…and much more.
📥 Download your free copy today and take the first step towards a healthier, more comfortable home.
UNCOMMON LIVING
At Uncommon, we’re making uncommon living commonplace.
The goal of Uncommon.Living is to democratise healthy, sustainable homes at scale – to make the uncommon common. Passive House design and thinking is at the core of our philosophy and we’re excited to partner with APA on the incubator program.
Embracing the DFMA playbook without compromise. Optimising site yields, delivery timeframes and quality. Reducing carbon impact through the life cycle and delivering a triple bottom line ROI. This is what we do, all while focusing on creating a healthy environment and vibrant community for everyone who lives or works in the spaces we create.
Founded by Michael Drage and Charles Peters, Uncommon Living is the integration of a diverse range of skills and ideas, responding to an urgent need.
Michael worked for 25 years in investment and finance before shifting his focus to housing and sustainability. He now heads multiple businesses driving sustainable design, including Efficient Habitat (ESD consultancy and certification), Reimagined Habitat (Passive House design, led by Simone Schenkel) and Net Zero Plus (high-performance building prefabrication and glazing). Michael is a board member of the Australian Passivhaus Association and BDAA.
Charles is an architect with over 20 years’ experience and is the founder and principal of Craft Architecture. He has designed and delivered award-winning projects across a range of typologies and scales. He has a deep understanding of delivering sustainable housing at scale — both in the private sector and in partnership with institutions such as Homes NSW and Nightingale Housing.