EMBRACE A HIGH QUALITY OF LIFE WITH A LOW ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT

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​Conjuring memories of the coast and childhood holidays, The Cape exudes a sense of freedom. In perfect harmony with the environment, residents enjoy absolute beachfronts, breath-taking views and modern creature comfort.

​​Australia’s first truly sustainable residential project, The Cape is offering 230 home sites, with sales of Stage 3 launched in early 2019. Overlooking the spectacular Bunurong Coast and Bass Strait, residents can walk to beautiful unspoiled swimming and surfing beaches.

​In collaboration with architects and builders who share the same vision,10 pre-approved house designs have been created exclusively for The Cape, but all residents are most welcome to work with our builders to develop their own unique design. Home sites range from 313 to over 1000 sqm. 

Complete with a sports precinct and community facilities, parks, kilometres of walking paths and NBN with optic fibre to every home, The Cape has everything you need in a well-planned modern community.

​More than half of The Cape project is dedicated to open space, where walking and cycling tracks meander past native vegetation, parks and barbecue areas.

​Complete with a sports precinct and other facilities, The Cape will have everything you need in a well-planned modern community.

A SUSTAINABLE WAY TO LIVE

" Our vision is to create a benchmark for sustainable living in a location unlike any other. The Cape at Cape Paterson brings together the expertise of local builders and sustainability experts, to create a modern community that is one with the environment"

- BRENDAN CONDON, PROJECT DIRECTOR

In designing The Cape we have reviewed various aspects of sustainability and liveability alongside principles of ecological restoration and social cohesion. The Cape combines these values to bring you a truly exceptional lifestyle.

Energy efficient design
​When you purchase land at The Cape, build your home from one of our 10 unique designs, each featuring 7.5-star energy efficient homes with highly efficient lights and appliances. Alternatively you can choose to customise your own based on our design guidelines. Some of the best builders and designers in Australia are on hand to help you build at The Cape.

All homes will feature proper orientation, shading, glazing, insulation and more, to ensure year round comfort and reduce living costs. Your home will retain warmth in winter and stay cool in summer, minimising the need for cooling or heating.

Precious water
​The use of rainwater will increase the availability of clean, fresh water in our community. In addition to mains water, all houses will feature at least 10,000 litres of rainwater storage for use in gardens and toilets, helping to create year-round water security. Excess stormwater will be redirected to collection ponds and filtered back through vegetation into groundwater and natural wetlands.

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Clean energy
​Each house at The Cape will have a minimum of 2.5 kilowatts of solar energy. Powered by the sun, the community will be capable of creating an annual surplus of clean energy. Electric vehicle charge points are also available for residents who want them.

Active lifestyle
The Cape will offer kilometres of walking and cycling paths, parks, a large village green, and an ampitheatre, as well as a sports precinct with barefoot bowls, bocce rink, beach volleyball court and a half basketball court. There will also be a conference facility with a community centre, café and seminar space.

Food gardens
As a resident at The Cape, you will have the opportunity to grow your own produce in our specially designed gardens if you choose. The café at The Cape’s Community Centre will also offer our residents delicious meals made from the freshest, locally grown produce.

Protecting natural habitats
A haven for nature lovers, The Cape is designed to coexist with natural Coastal Heathland and Banksia Woodland habitats. Along with local wildflower species, these habitats provide home to native wildlife such as echidnas, wallabies, kangaroos and countless bird species.

THE PROJECT TEAM

The Cape is the brainchild of Brendan Condon, a respected authority in the field of environmental restoration. He brings on board an award-winning team with strong credentials in sustainability and quality modern design, namely Small Giants, Archiblox, Martin Builders, TS Constructions, Australian Ecosystems and The Sociable Weaver.

SMALL GIANTS

Small Giants is a Melbourne-based company, with a track record in delivering modern, boutique, and sustainable developments. Founded by Danny Almagor and Berry Liberman, Small Giants recently completed The Commons, an iconic apartment complex in Brunswick, Melbourne, which won awards such as the 2014 State Architecture Awards for Sustainable Architecture and the 2014 Premier’s Design Awards.

THE SOCIABLE WEAVER

The Sociable Weaver is a design and building company that creates healthy, sustainable, inspiring homes that are functional and affordable. Our architectural homes encourage connection to nature, to community and to ourselves. ​We create homes that are either carbon neutral or carbon positive and we place strong emphasis on building biology to create a healthy home. Along with Feng Shui design principles, permaculture integration, recycling processes, accessibility and more, our homes are thoughtfully considered in every possible way.

AUSTRALIAN ECOSYSTEMS

Australian Ecosystems (AE) is an ecological restoration and landscape construction company based in Melbourne. The company specialises in restoration of wetland, grassland, woodland and coastal ecosystems, the construction of sustainable landscapes and urban food production. AE operates one of the largest indigenous plant nurseries in Australia, which produces several million plants annually for biodiversity projects.

MARTIN BUILDERS

Builders, innovators & change makers, Martin Builders represent the next generation of leaders in the building industry. With a mission to implement positive change in the world, Martin Builders continues to innovate and translate their knowledge into exceptional design and construction. Winners of Master Builder of the year, all of their homes are constructed to a premium quality with environmental sensitivity at the front of mind.

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TS CONSTRUCTIONS

TS Constructions is a respected Wonthaggi building company, and supporter of The Cape for a decade. They had significant input into the development of our designs and guidelines, and helped make beautiful, high quality, and carbon-neutral housing achievable and affordable. They recently won a raft of accolades at the Victorian Master Builder Awards for the South East Region, including Sustainable House of the Year.

ARCHIBLOX

ArchiBlox Prefabricating inspiring spaces, creating beautiful sustainable, healthy environment, and wellbeing. ArchiBlox brings you the very best in prefabricated modular architecture. Our streamlined approach to design and construction allows us to offer new builds and additions that deliver outstanding value matched with rapid completion and award winning style. Honoured as the ‘Third Most Innovative Architectural Business’ by Fast Company’s ‘World’s Most Innovative Companies list’ 2016.
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The Cape aims to promote sustainable building design all over Australia to raise standards in the building industry and to leave a legacy for our children - that's why our plans & designs are available for everyone to download for free!

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THE 10 STAR HOME

BY THE SOCIABLE WEAVER

A stunning example of how a modern home can be functional, affordable and kinder to our planet.
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Designed in collaboration with Clare Cousins Architects, this is Victoria's first 10 star home. The home is also carbon positive and has been built to zero waste and building biology principles

The Sociable Weaver is a new design and build company by award winning builder, Dave Martin, formally of Archiblox, and social entrepreneur Danny Almagor of Small Giants.

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CUTLERS

BY TS CONSTRUCTIONS

​An 8.2 star beautiful single story home that is a cut above the rest. This carbon neutral, energy and water efficient coastal home sits within the top 1% of sustainable homes in Australia.
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The home features state of the art energy efficient design, construction and fit out, which combines to keep the home beautifully comfortable in all weather conditions, with minimal annual energy costs.

Named after one of our favourite local surf breaks, Cutlers was designed to fit into the ethos of “The Cape” sustainable housing development.

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DUNE  1

BY ADAPT DESIGN GROUP

The design brief behind Dune 1 was to create an extremely energy efficient dwelling whilst keeping construction costs low.

​The home showcases all the fundamentals of best practice energy efficient design and construction – including good orientation, quality insulation, crossflow ventilation, double glazing, thermal mass and shading.
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The result was this 8.7 star rated home featuring a 8 kw photovoltaic system including battery storage. The combination of these sustainability, energy efficiency and onsite clean energy generation elements will ensure this home is “energy positive” – generating a surplus of clean energy on an annual basis, with the potential for a net return of over five hundred dollars per annum for surplus power generated.

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CORE 9.1

BY BEAUMONT CONCEPTS

One of the latest designs at The Cape in Cape Paterson, by Beaumont Concepts. Featuring passive solar design, double glazed windows, earth wool insulation, 10,000 water tank, Sanden Eco Hot Water Heat Pump, 5kw salar electricity system, Daiken split system and many more innovative features.

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