Issue 62

Living in the Environment Issue

Issue 62 is the first issue of the year and always a great time to put our best foot forward. With Adam Goodrum, the loveliest man in design, as Guest Editor, we draw on his insights as a furniture designer, artist and educator to look at the makers shaping our design world. Sustainability has never been more important, and increasingly this is a consideration from the start with projects designed to address their immediate environment as well as the longevity of the planet. From the coldest winters to the most tropical of summers, addressing how we live in the environment is crucial to creating the perfect home.

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Dialling In With Richard Peters

On episode 6 of Dialling In With Habitus, we speak to Richard Peters about the performance of his own home completed a decade prior, residential design moving forward, and what it’s like to lead a team remotely.

Richard Peters is a director at Tobias Partners and a familiar and regular face at Habitus HQ. His own home, dubbed The Shed and completed in 2010, appears in Habitus issue 13 and is an artful example of adaptive reuse in a city that desperately calls for it. More recently we caught up with Richard to learn about Haxstead Garden House, a weekender for a couple on land that has been in their family for many years.

Today, Richard joins us on Dialling In With Habitus to speak about how Tobias Partners has transitioned to work from home. We learn some of the pros, cons and even neutral outcomes that have come about as a result. Mostly, it’s the latter as Richards tells us of a team that took a moment to re-adjust and then continued to carry on.

Richard says they’re a practice set up to deal with difficult problems and resolve them in artful ways. He looks forward to implementing new ideas for residential design and re-evaluating working models into the future.

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About the Author

Holly Cunneen

Holly Cunneen was the editor of Habitus and has spent her time in the media writing about architecture, design and our local industry. With a firm view that “design has a shared responsibility to the individual as much as it does the wider community,” her personal and professional trajectory sees her chart the interests, accomplishments, and emerging patterns of behaviour within the architecture and design community.

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