Architecture & Design / Features / Ben Caine
March 20, 2023.
Architect and sustainable housing expert Ben Caine cautions homeowners about various pitfalls to consider when choosing an architect or designer to deliver their new home or renovation.
Habitus LIving: Design Hunters
by Aleesha Callahan 4 August, 2023
Founder of WA-based studio Leanhaus, architect Ben Caine took a roundabout way into finding his niche as an expert in Passivhaus – an approach to building that he says “scientifically nothing else compares to”.
The Green List
by Poppy Johnston
3 September 2021
When architect Ben Caine was designing a super high energy performance, timber framed home on a laneway block in coastal Perth, he was conscious of not creating another bespoke hard-to-replicate home built purely for “magazine fodder”.
“Good performance homes should be available to more people, not less,” the Leanhaus architect told The Green List.
Like all Ben’s high-performance designs, this two-bed, two bathroom, plus study home in Scarborough known as Abbetthaus is elegant in its simplicity.
Fast Company Magazine July 2021
by Nate Berg
Architects around the world are designing solutions to increasing temperatures and more frequent heat waves. New materials, advanced heat modeling techniques, and some longstanding design principles are showing that even when temperatures hit unexpected peaks, our homes and buildings will be able to stay cool without consuming huge amounts of energy.
Ben Caine is an architect in Perth, Australia, who designs homes to meet the Passive House standard, and he says that some of the lighter exterior and insulation materials commonly used on Passive House projects are still hard to get in Australia.
Abbetthaus has been recognised on the official shortlist for the 2020 Sustainability awards for thedesign and construction of a single-residential building to which a Class 1a Building category.
