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Korinda House / Bent Architecture

Miwa Negoro — Wed, 01 Oct 2025 19:00:00 +0000

Set gently across six acres of sloping bushland on Melbourne's fringe, Korinda House is a home of quiet resilience and deep connection — shaped not only by the contours of the land, but by the personalities, rhythms and rituals of the family who live within it.

Eaglemont House / Bent Architecture

Miwa Negoro — Fri, 08 Aug 2025 02:00:00 +0000

Eaglemont House explores the relationship between a home, its environment, and its inhabitants. The project reimagines a single-storey Edwardian house that had previously been compromised by a poorly conceived extension. This outdated addition was dark, south-facing, and featured an uninviting, damp outdoor entertaining space due to its poor orientation. Recognising the site's potential and the original dwelling's charm, the design replaces the extension with a new, light-filled addition that fosters a healthier, more connected living environment, while embracing natural light and the surrounding landscape.

Hawthorn Hood House / BENT Architecture

Hana Abdel — Fri, 19 Jan 2024 02:00:00 +0000

The Hawthorn Hood clients (a couple of professionals with primary school-aged twins) approached our studio to design a renovation extension for a house that they occupied in a neighboring suburb. It became apparent, through early investigations, that the resultant design would likely be heavily compromised due to a number of inherent limitations in the house and site, the most significant being the solar orientation of the allotment.

BENT Annexe II House / Bent Architecture

Hana Abdel — Fri, 23 Dec 2022 01:00:00 +0000

Imagine if your home could feel like living in a garden pavilion. At BENT Annexe II, it does! By retaining the character-rich front section of the home and creating a new, light-filled addition to the rear, this family of four plus Pippa the groodle are surrounded by lush greenery and can effortlessly utilize their backyard. As is the case with many period homes, the existing house was charming with high ceilings and ornate details. As is also the case with many period homes, the living areas felt disconnected from the backyard due to a series of rooms, such as the kitchen, storage rooms, and a toilet which were tacked onto the back in a lean-to. We resisted the temptation to knock down the lean-to and add a new open-plan living area stretching from boundary to boundary to the back and opening onto the garden for two key reasons.

Orchard Manufacturing Co. Office / Bent Architecture

Hana Abdel — Sun, 10 Jul 2022 02:00:00 +0000

Orchard Manufacturing offers a new approach to factory design, one which creates a happy and healthy workplace inspired by nature.

Gallery of the Saints Mausoleum Extension / BENT Architecture

Hana Abdel — Sat, 19 Mar 2022 22:00:00 +0000

The Gallery of the Saints Mausoleum Extension forms a site-specific, engaging and respectful memorial structure where space, culture and belief are formative in the experience of emotional healing. The design approach draws on the experiences of the preceding Mausoleum stages at Keilor whilst offering an innovative, first-principles interpretation of site and program in order to create a purposeful, contemporary Mausoleum of the highest quality, which has been embraced by the local community and vitally linked to its natural surrounds.

Mt Eliza House / Bent Architecture

Hana Abdel — Fri, 11 Feb 2022 01:00:00 +0000

Australians are living longer and enjoying health and fitness long into their retirement, so isn't it time we created homes to support and enable this growing demographic? One of our passions here at Bent Architecture is designing for ageing in place. With empathetic design strategies, we can enable people to live independently well into their senior years in a home they love and feel comfortable in. As our population ages, designing homes with ageing in place and accessible design principles in mind will mean homes won't have to be retrofitted to help with mobility issues, require a lot of maintenance or feel overwhelming for elderly owners.

Werribee Mausoleum Extension / BENT Architecture

Andreas Luco — Mon, 30 Nov 2020 19:00:00 +0000

This recent expansion of the Werribee Mausoleum creates 170 new resting places for deceased loved-ones in the Werribee cemetery. The project comprises two distinct structures; a new garden Mausoleum to the east of the original building, containing 140 outward-facing crypts (doubling the original capacity); and a series of Family Mausolea to the west of the original building, comprising four intimate family rooms and chapels which accommodate five or ten resting places each. The new additions flank the original structure designed by BAU and expanded on the symbolism and monumentality of the original design. The dramatic Corbusian pre-cast roof form is extended over the new additions, but a space is reserved between new and existing at ground level; a punctuation mark.

Wayss Youth Transition Hub / BENT Architecture

Paula Pintos — Sun, 15 Nov 2020 21:00:00 +0000

The WAYSS Youth Transition Hub, commissioned by the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) and located in Melbourne's outer eastern suburbs, provides a home and support network to vulnerable young people on the brink of homelessness.

Fitzroy North House / BENT Architecture

Rayen Sagredo — Tue, 12 Feb 2019 23:00:00 +0000

This project is a renovation and extension of a semi-detached Edwardian family home in Fitzroy North. The living areas were extended and re-configured to take advantage of the abundant natural light offered by the sites northerly aspect.

Bent Annexe / BENT Architecture

Paula Pintos — Mon, 11 Feb 2019 21:00:00 +0000

Step out of your caravan into the shade and fresh air, protected by a canvas annexe which frames a view of the lush landscape beyond. This experience was the inspiration behind BENT Annexe, an addition for a delightful family of four and their two adorable Dachshunds. Because every day should feel like a breath of fresh air, surrounded by nature.

Phoenix Rooftop / BENT Architecture

Daniel Tapia — Wed, 30 May 2018 17:00:00 +0000

Phoenix Rooftop is a green refuge in the unlikeliest of places - 30-storeys high, on an exposed, yet spectacular site in the heart of Melbourne. This garden in the sky allows two down-sizing professionals to retain the joy of outdoor living as they transition from the suburbs to the city.

Thornbury House / BENT Architecture

Daniel Tapia — Mon, 30 Oct 2017 16:00:00 +0000

The Thornbury House is a low cost, compact family home set within a quiet, inner-suburban context. The design is underpinned by its playful roof form which references its surrounding context and is stretched and pulled to accommodate a double story residence in what appears to be a single story dwelling.

Melrose Health / Bent Architecture

Cristobal Rojas — Thu, 09 Jun 2016 17:00:00 +0000

This project involves the transformation of a typically mundane and static office/warehouse building into the dynamic new headquarters for Melrose, a national health product company based in outer-eastern Melbourne. The project embraces the Melrose ideology of whole body health by creating a workplace that is responsive to the natural environment and engaged with the processes within.