Led by highly awarded architect Ric Butt, Strine Environments has a successful 30-year track record of designing and building beautiful contemporary homes for the Canberra climate that cost nothing to cool and virtually nothing to heat. We have designed a series of unique, passive solar homes that are creating the contemporary vernacular architecture of Australia. We work with the environment rath
er than against it; utilising the microclimate that comes with every site – for free! Everything in a Strine home and on the site is there for a reason – including an integrated lush garden that surrounds the home, becomes part of the living space and if done correctly helps fine tune the homes climate. Everything is part of the whole and designed to provide ultimate comfort – using spacious open layouts, flexible modules and indoor/outdoor living – as well as protection against increasing weather extremes and white noise of city living. The result is a calm, airy and light-filled building that is a joy to live in. Using the principles of passive solar design, as well as a range of unique products and techniques Strine has developed – such as insulated precast concrete panels, adjustable awnings, thermal mass walls, ventilated facades, solar chimneys and slab edge insulation – Strine Environments, one of Australia’s foremost environmental design and construction practitioners, offers clients a seamless, environmental built solution. A perfect solution that doesn’t cost the earth.
