4 Archer St, Dickson ACT 2602, Australia

While some homes claim to be solar passive in design, 4 Archer St Dickson delivers on this promise. Designed and built in 2007 in conjunction with award winning Green Architects Strine Design, the brief from current owners, was to create a home specific for Canberra’s climate. Its unique pre-cast sandwich concrete construction, provides superior energy efficient and acoustic qualities with the benefit of strength, durability and low-maintenance exteriors. Both living areas, plus the bedrooms and study have all been positioned to take advantage of the solar gain to the North with large format windows and sliding doors flooding the interiors with sunlight over the winter months and ambient light over the summer months.

Ideally suited to professional couples, families or those looking to downsize, there are separate formal and informal living areas with a recently re-modelled kitchen showcasing custom splash backs a real feature of the open plan family room. This space opens out to a living outdoor pergola which is covered in a deciduous Boston Ivy, cool in summer and brilliant red in autumn before shedding its leaves to allow sunlight in over winter.

For those with a green thumb, the yard boasts an array of raised vegetable gardens on both sides of the home with a large greenhouse to raise seedlings. There are two 4,500 litre rainwater tanks that can be used for the gardens and these are also plumbed to the toilets and laundry.

With a blue-chip location in Canberra’s Inner City, you are an easy bike ride to the Dickson shopping precinct with its cafés, restaurants and light rail stops and a short drive to the City Centre, ANU and Lake Burley Griffin. A selection of quality schools are close by and for those looking for walking and bike rails, Dickson’s Wetlands and Mt Ainslie Nature Reserve are located moments away.

This exceptional residence is sure to impress those who are serious about minimizing their carbon footprint and also their energy bills and who wish to secure a home that encompasses the very essence of solar passive.

– 167sqm of living with two living areas

– Kitchen renovated in 2020

– Ensuite and bathroom have under tile heating

– Two reverse cycle air conditioners

– Bamboo joinery in study

– 5.35kw Solar with inverter – Feb 2016

– Tesla battery – Nov 2017

– 650sqm block

– 35sqm raised garden beds

– 2 x 4500 litre water tanks plumbed to toilets and laundry

– 4 minute drive to Dickson shopping precinct

– 7 minute drive to Canberra Centre

– Daramalan College and Dickson College are close by

– North Ainslie Primary School is an 8 minute walk