It may seem strange that a company such as Five Mile Radius, which values the locality of building materials as a core tenet, would draw initial inspiration from as far away as India. But for architect and sustainable building advocate Clare Kennedy – founder of the out-of-the-ordinary Brisbane-based architecture collective – it was there she first connected with Mahatma Gandhi’s belief that the “ideal house” should be constructed using materials found within a five-mile radius of the village.
Previously employed by commercial architecture firms in London and the UAE – sprawling businesses where the provenance of materials was rarely, if ever, considered
