Completing a Griffith University degree in architecture has created the catalyst for 21 year-old Masters student, Courtney Villegas to conceptualise a totally off-the-grid, 120-acre property, just outside of Lismore, in northern New South Wales.
The initiative has evolved through necessity, with entrepreneurial vigour and creativity a hallmark of the project. This complete undertaking is seeing a significant overhaul of the off-grid house typology and Queenslander style, utilising cutting edge techniques acquired through the Griffith university architectural degree to create a home that subsumes both aesthetic appeal and ecologically sound application.
“Where my parents live it’s hard to get any power or water resources so what we’ve been doing is gradually designing a totally off-the-grid house,” confirmed Courtney.
“With the sustainability techniques I’ve learned at Griffith Uni, we’ve started implementing an underground water spring reserve, water tanks, solar panels and working on our own sewerage system, so it’ll be a completely 100 percent off-the-grid
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