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Check here for some of the amazing built environment project.

Leaf House

Inspired by a simple leaf, Albert designed an unconventional environmentally sustainable house that promotes a healthy and harmonious lifestyle. The Leaf House combines the organic feel of natural houses built in regional areas of developing countries and integrates them with modern principles of the built environment. The Leaf House was inspired by a desire to reconnect people with the natural environment, strengthen family and social networks and encourage more healthy lifestyles in a creative and exciting way.

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Bringing the outside in

Anthony Ho & Nathan Chan explored their inner creative sides with their sustainable architecture project. Their model restaurants were designed through a process of continuous improvement and adapting new ideas.

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Disaster relief housing structure

Alan Pearson, a year 12 student from Scone Grammar School, took up the challenge to assist people affected by natural disasters. For his project, he designed disaster relief housing that was compact, easy to transport and to construct.

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Eco-friendly Ronald MacDonald House

Year 12 St Stanislaus school student, Luke Bonham, took on the challenge to address sustainability issues in the building and construction industries. To compliment the new local hospital, he designed an Eco-friendly Ronald MacDonald House for Bathurst.

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Global change and citizenship

Year 8 students from Randwick Boys High (NSW) took on the sustainable living challenge to develop more sustainable housing. Through their geography studies, the boys researched and designed some unique housing models.

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