Principal Architect
Environa Studio
SPEAKER INFORMATION
Email: jan@environastudio.com.au
Website: www.environastudio.com.au
SESSION DESCRIPTION
Single Family Dwellings: Green within reason
Being green more often than not starts at home - even with the home itself. But building green takes place in the context of a neighborhood, a community, and a legal and economic climate. These factors can work both for and against the constructive pursuit of sustainability. Here, four panelists will discuss their extensive and diverse experiences working with city & regional governments, private developers, and nonprofits, to reflect upon the practical side of the sustainable single family home, as well as the more abstract notions that have inspired their particular work. We will discuss the costs, material possibilities, and family impact of going green.
SPEAKER BIO
Tone Wheeler is an architect, author, educator and consultant with an abiding interest in environmental architecture and sustainable design. The award winning ‘environa studio’ founded by Tone 20 years ago is widely recognised as a leading innovative ESD architectural practice. Sustainability is the core of the firm’s work and the driving force of environa’s design philosophy.
Tone has been involved in the planning of whole suburbs, the reuse of existing warehouse buildings and completed designs for environmental residential and tourism projects. Notable projects include individual and multiple housing schemes, commercial buildings and urban design master plans, all with a strong emphasis on experimental, social and and environmental responsibility. environa studio is committed to integrating architecture, interiors and landscape for a more sustainable future.
Tone has won numerous awards and competitions, is the immediate past chair of the Royal Australian Institute of Architects National Environment Committee, has been on the faculty of three universities and is also on the Board of the Association of Building Sustainability Assessors. He is a frequent speaker at architectural conferences and seminars, has been a judge on ‘the New Inventors’ program on ABC Television, and is widely quoted in the media for his activism.
