Tasmanian House / Atelier Jiri Lev

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  • Architects: Atelier Jiri Lev
  • Area Area of this architecture project Area:  26
  • Year Completion year of this architecture project Year:  2021
  • Photographs
    Photographs:Sasha Lev
  • Lead Architect: Jiri Lev
  • General Contractor : TimberWorld
  • Country: Australia
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Tasmanian House  / Atelier Jiri Lev - Exterior Photography, Facade
© Sasha Lev

Text description provided by the architects. Australia, like most of the world, is in the midst of housing and environmental crises. The Tasmanian House is an attempt to address contemporary problems with a combination of traditional and innovative approaches.

Tasmanian House  / Atelier Jiri Lev - Exterior Photography, Facade, Windows
© Sasha Lev

The core of the building’s design is the notion of locality, regionality, and “Tasmanianness”. The design language of this modest private residence represents a contemporary interpretation of what the architect believes to be the most beautiful and appropriate of Tasmanian precedents: the Georgian period vernacular. 

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To the maximum extent possible the building utilises raw, untreated and locally sourced materials, such as sustainably sourced native and plantation timbers or sheep wool insulation. Paints and chemical treatments were avoided entirely. The use of synthetic materials was minimised to bare compliance with the Australian Building Code. If furniture and few other components are removed, the building can freely decompose and eventually become a certifiable organic garden.

Tasmanian House  / Atelier Jiri Lev - Interior Photography, Windows, Wood, Beam
© Sasha Lev

This small cabin represents the first phase of a larger pavilion house, designed to exist comfortably either as one or two independent residential units: a studio and a two bedroom family home, each opening into its own private garden. The units will be connected with a partly glazed cloister, also serving as a wind break and visual screen.

Tasmanian House  / Atelier Jiri Lev - Exterior Photography, Windows, Facade
© Sasha Lev

The project was built commercially at cost equivalent to a budget off-the-shelf house, reflecting typical Tasmanian inventiveness and ability to make the most out of quite a little.

Tasmanian House  / Atelier Jiri Lev - Exterior Photography, Windows
© Sasha Lev
Tasmanian House  / Atelier Jiri Lev - Interior Photography
© Sasha Lev

The building demonstrates the ability of the island state to be wholly self-sufficient in bulk construction materials and it serves as an easily replicable prototype of an affordable, debt-free, locally sourced, and delivered housing model.

Tasmanian House  / Atelier Jiri Lev - Exterior Photography
© Sasha Lev

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Cite: "Tasmanian House / Atelier Jiri Lev" 23 Aug 2021. ArchDaily. Accessed . <https://www.archdaily.com/967211/tasmanian-house-atelier-jiri-lev> ISSN 0719-8884

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