Architect Brew Koch: 2023 Finalist – Sustainable places
Architect Brew Koch is a finalist for a Community Champion award in the Premier's Sustainability Awards 2023 – Sustainable places category. Purchasing its Trust for Nature property in 2018, Architect Brew Koch discovered the management of its grassy woodland was all-consuming and incredibly rewarding. Inspired to build a sustainable farmhouse, they aimed to demonstrate a project that has reciprocal benefits for the land and local community as a model for architectural practice and education.
Architect Brew Koch is a small architectural partnership that also teaches at RMIT University. They worked with local stakeholders to understand the Indigenous landscape before designing and building a predominantly off-grid farmhouse with minimal site impact that relies on in-situ resources to operate, including for powering tools.
Architect Brew Koch plans to broaden the discussion in the local environmental, farming, and national architectural communities about collective responsibility to the land.
