Breathe
Good Natured - Architecture
GOOD NATURED: design art architecture celebrates creative projects by designers, artists and architects working to design a better future. These practitioners are focussed on creating outcomes that are both beautiful and good for the planet.
About BREATHE
Breathe, an architectural collective based in Melbourne/Naarm, design healthy sustainable projects that are adapted to the environment and built to last. Their timeless work creates harmonious places to live for the residents and a place of beauty for the community.
Breathe are committed to sustainability not just in their role as architects but as educators too. That’s why they created a range of guides that offer accessible introductions to sustainable building design.
The Business:
We're Carbon Neutral
We are B Corp
We have a reconciliation action plan
Projects are:
Carbon neutral
Responsibly sourced
Life cycle assessed
Designed for people and the planet
Breathe undertakes meaningful projects they can be proud of — those that align with their purpose and values. Since they focus on maximising positive impact, many of their projects don’t fit the common definition of ‘architecture’. They work to understand who they’re designing for. They strive to inspire, engage and support their clients and the broader communities they serve. They prioritise social, environmental and economic sustainability in every project. They question the status quo to pursue outcomes that are informed by, and seek to better, those that came before. Above all, they prioritise ethics along with aesthetics, and design without ego, to create the best outcomes for clients and their communities.
Connect with Breathe: @breathearchitecture breathe.com.au
Breathe's Project
The Commons is an example of sustainable urbanisation — a replicable triple bottom line development with apartments that are spacious, generous, simple, affordable, sustainable and that value add to the community. At its core, The Commons is about people, not architectural form, and what is most impressive is the way in which people use the building, the way they interact. It’s how they smile and talk to each other in the lift. It’s their generosity toward one another.
The design strategy for The Commons was to build more with less. To give space and height, light and air. To give people what they needed not what the marketing agents thought would sell. The whole, together, is so much more than the sum of its parts.
Breathe's Good Natured Action
Breathe has suggested a simple action that all of us can do to make an impact.
The single biggest thing we can do to fight climate change is switch our electricity to 100% GreenPower.
Make the switch
One simple step
Five minutes, one call
We’re in a time of climate crisis, Breathe have dedicated their years of practice as architects to find elegant design solutions to design places for people and for the planet. Each of us, all of us can take small effortless steps that when combined lead to massive change.
The single biggest thing that you can do to combat climate change is to make one simple switch.
This is to make the switch to 100% certified GreenPower.
When your home is powered by GreenPower you are driving market change away from coal and gas and into a renewable future.
Make the switch today.