SUSTAINABILITY

ARCHITECTURE

POSITIVE ENERGY

INTERIOR

OUR HUMAN-CENTRED BUILDING DESIGN & CONSULTANCY

We are an architectural design, education and consulting firm committed to making our spaces more meaningful, healthy, comfortable and sustainable, especially our homes, which serve daily as a place of peace, relaxation and generation of beautiful earth healing energy.

Imagine a sustainable home that provides the maximum comfort for you and your family by keeping stable internal temperatures and a continuous supply of fresh air! This building standard, called passive house design, originally developed in Germany, can reduce heating needs by an astounding 90%. This target is reached by making the house incredibly well-insulated, virtually air-tight, and by designing with contemporary use of building physics.

The must-haves for a sustainable home are:

  1. Thermal Comfort: 21-25 degrees Celsius throughout the year.
  2. Air Quality: Constant fresh air supply.
  3. No air leakages: Energy reduction of up to 90%.
  4. Nature’s design secret / Golden Ratio

Passive Hive is promoting concept of Passive House Design for a healthy indoor environment that is scientifically proven sustainable, comfortable in temperature and humidity, while using very little energy.

Passive houses offer energy savings of up to 90% compared to typical existing buildings and more than 75% compared to the average new building that follows best practice. In a typical household, 49% of energy is spent on heating and cooling.

OUR Human-centred Interior DESING & CONSULTANCY

We deliver a holistic approach to the contemporary interior designs in which you would want to spend an extended amount of time in. Our design principles with holistic design elements and methods aim to support a joyful life. We will encourage you to pay attention to the natural elements that surround you and acknowledge them. We believe that a home is a sanctuary that needs reconnection again. In doing so, we can increase the quality of our lives, our enjoyment in the present moment and reconnect with ourselves in a space which shapes our daily reality.

OUR DESIGN PHILOSOPHY:

  1. Natural Materials
  2. Nature’s Design Secret/ Golden Ratio/ The Divine Proportion
  3. Heart-based Feng Shui
  4. Ultimate Balance with the Elements
  5. Prospect and Refuge with the Elements
  6. Contact with direct Nature, or some form of Nature
  7. Visual and Non-visual Connection with Nature

PASSIVE HOUSE DIY ON-LINE COURSES

  •  PASSIVE HOUSE DESIGN – DIY MINI COURSE

This mini course will provide you with the main tips on how to design the house that is very sustainable, energy efficient, comfortable and above all healthy to live in. The aim of this course is to equip you with all the tools you need to design your house to Passivhaus standard yourself and to find a professional who can help you with that. This is the introductory course where you will learn the main advantages of the passive house.

  • IN DEPTH PASSIVE HOUSE DESIGN DIY HOUSE COURSE

If you are ready to rebuild your house according to this standard or retrofit your existing house, I’m preparing the in-depth course on this topic as the right choice for you.

SMART MOLD-FREE HOME DESIGN MUSTS FOR PERFECT HEALTH IN YOUR DREAM HOME (HOME DESIGN AND RETROFIT)

  1. PERFECT SUSTAINABLE DREAM HOME DESIGN
  2. PREVENT HEALTH RISKS AND INVISIBLE MOLD BUILD-UP
  3. SUPRIME AIR QUALITY WITH CONSTANT FRESH AIR
  4. SAVING MONEY ON ELECTRICITY
  5. RECOVERY OF THE EARTH SUPPORT
  6. ELIMINATE DRAFTS ON WINDOWS
  7. LIFESTYLE THAT PROMOTES GROWTH

WORKSHOPS ON SUSTAINABLE AND GRATEFUL LIVING

By using holistic architectural design principles and interior design solutions, which encompass proven methods used worldwide, we can create a healthy and sustainable home design as your own centre of peace, calmness and joy.

We have developed the Human-Centred Design Formula, which combines scientifically proven methods and practices into the ultimate holistic design principle that, with simple, yet effective practical tools turns our spaces into ones that improve well-being and allows us to meditate, relax and ground ourselves as we generate and tune into the Earth’s healing energy in our home daily.

We can help your internal space not only to improve air quality and energy efficiency, but we propose a Gratitude/ Relaxation corner within your home as your sanctuary, allowing you a space to reconnect on a very personal level. By doing so not only we can increase the enjoyment in the present moment and improve the quality of our lives, but we get to reawaken our hearts and the beauty of this deeper knowing within us.

“The mind creates an abyss, the heart crosses it.” – Nisargadatta️

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Human-centred Design Formula

We can help your internal space not only to improve air quality and energy efficiency, but we propose a Gratitude/ Relaxation corner within your home as your sanctuary, allowing you a space to reconnect on a very personal level. By doing so not only we can increase the enjoyment in the present moment and improve the quality of our lives, but we get to reawaken our hearts and the beauty of this deeper knowing within us.

Interior well-being home improvement audit

By connecting to the space we live in we are allowing ourselves a present momentary awareness which is crucial for healthy lifestyle. Good lighting, air quality and natural materials with the interior design composition that invite you to connect to your true self is what a home can provide when design properly. Interior Design is never about aesthetically pleasing appearances that only represent your desires, but a space for connection with your inner self.

Natural Air Quality

Efficient heat recovery ventilation is key, allowing for good indoor air quality whilst saving energy. A Mechanical Ventilation and Heat Recovery (MVHR) is a simple device that keeps heat in while moving stale air out. It works by extracting warm air from certain rooms like kitchens and bathrooms and supplying fresh air to habitable rooms. The fresh air is pre-warmed (or pre-cooled) via a heat exchanger.

Avoiding the Energy Highway

Thermal bridges are weaknesses in the building envelopes that allow more heat to pass through than might be expected, e.g. poorly insulated slab). All edges, corners, connections and penetrations must be planned and executed with great care so that thermal bridges can be avoided. Thermal bridges which cannot be avoided must be minimized as far as possible.

A House Without Leaks

We don’t want accidental ventilation. Accidental ventilation is when you lose energy through holes, cracks and everything else, and you can’t control that.  We want controlled ventilation. Air sealing keeps warm, moist air out of the building envelope, which allows for a comfortable indoor environment.

 

Our Clients

What They Say

Another great job from Marta!

Abraham Al Tatri
NY, USA

Loved Marta’s attention to detail on her floor plans and her initiative was a credit to her. I found her very prompt, efficient and polite. I would love to engage her on a fit out project, this is where I see her real talents would shine.

Angela Moffat, The Enviro Housing Group
Perth, WA

Really pleased with the service and quality of work. I would definitely recommend them to my friends and colleagues. MK Designs Consultancy has always gone out of their way to make sure the job is done right, providing great value to the work commissioned.

Ronnie Chua
Perth, WA

Marta came up with designs that not only matched the look and feel we were going for but also suggested a number of improvements that translated into better overall functionality – Will definitely work with her again.

Mike Pravdic
Perth, WA

Excellent job, very creative and detailed. Easy and smooth to work with. Her communication and responsiveness were top-notch and her skills were reasonably strong. I enjoyed working with Marta and I already have a new job for her! Thank you Marta, I look forward to work with you on my next project, very shortly!

Abraham Al Tatri
NY, USA

Thank you Marta for the great job on the drawings for our development and always working with us on our tight schedule.

Dermot Costello
WestGen, Perth, WA

I felt as a client that you were passionate about working to keep us as clients satisfied, even if it meant making many more changes than originally thought. Obviously, it is hard to tender for a job not knowing how many changes are likely, as this sometimes varies by the client. So we were very happy with this aspect.

Tony Mendez
Perth, WA

Marta was great! She did a wonderful job with our design and went above and beyond for us in helping with advice and decisions on all aspects of the build, from design, planning and approval, building materials and so on. She was very thorough and efficient. I would not hesitate to recommend her services.

Angela Connor
Perth, WA

Open yourself to the eternal gifts of joy in your home

As man creates an inseparable connection between architecture and the universe, we need to pay attention to the inner voices that shape our reality. As everything around and within us is constantly changing, we happen to play an important role in the process of the human development.

A well-designed home serves as a stage on which the life of man unfolds leaving the human condition healthy. Its design and construction must be environmentally friendly and energetically balanced, while providing enough energy resources to support the Earth while it is. These optimal conditions directly support the natural process of growth and wellbeing.

Take one of our on line courses and learn how to use scientifically proven methods and practices combined with holistic design principles to help you reconnect with your true self, your heart and your home daily.

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