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Stack & Field House / Steffen Welsch Architects

Miwa Negoro — Fri, 01 May 2026 02:00:00 +0000

Stack & Field is a small but generous extension of a 100-year-old weatherboard house on a tight inner-city block in Melbourne, Australia. It challenges a fundamental assumption of compact urban housing: that density requires consolidation. Located on a constrained and narrow site, the project plan dissolves layout and building form into a series of offset planes, layered rooms, and courtyards, and substitutes size for spatial richness.

Cloud Street / Steffen Welsch Architects

Valeria Silva — Thu, 20 Feb 2025 02:00:00 +0000

Part of an inner suburban neighbourhood, Cloud Street – a large family home with an extensive program - is a two-storey building with its own identity that appears modest and merges effortlessly into its surroundings. It reflects our ethos of building as background that avoids standing out but draws its strength from being part of and contributing to something else, in this case a relaxed suburban street in a family friendly neighbourhood.

Life Cycle House / Steffen Welsch Architects

Pilar Caballero — Sun, 16 Feb 2025 17:00:00 +0000

'Life Cycle' is a rigorous passive solar design on a small footprint. Our ethos of "building as background" guides layout, detailed planning, and articulation. This home is functional and unassuming, it resonates with approachability and warmth drawn from utilizing natural elements and materials.

Beach Slice House / Steffen Welsch Architects

Hana Abdel — Tue, 08 Mar 2022 02:00:00 +0000

"Beach Slice" is a holiday home an hour's drive from Melbourne, and a five-minute walk to the shore of Western Port Bay. Sitting on a bush block, it is humble and relaxed, designed to holiday. A place to hang your hat, it is also suitable as a place to retire.

This House Never Ends / Steffen Welsch Architects

Valeria Silva — Mon, 12 Apr 2021 20:00:00 +0000

Nestled in a heritage protected inner-city suburb of Melbourne this is a home with a sense of discovery. Designing a family home can be a complex venture: a house should be functional, environmentally sensitive, affordable and a good fit into the neighbourhood. A home should provide shelter with a sense of space that is your own; it should be light filled and warm. This determines siting, layout, room proportions and the articulation of the building fabric through openings, materials and details.

Feng Shui House / Steffen Welsch Architects

Paula Pintos — Fri, 04 Dec 2020 02:00:00 +0000

The practice of Feng Shui finds its origins in China, going back about 6,000 years. It literally translates to “wind and water” and is a concept aiming to design and plan buildings and their surroundings for harmony and happiness. Feng Shui calls on you to organise objects to allow for the flow of what is referred to as natural energy seen as moving through a space and all living things. In this context it is understood that a building’s layout, colours and materials affect the flow of energy.

House in House / Steffen Welsch Architects

Sabrina Leiva — Thu, 13 Apr 2017 17:00:00 +0000

Our designs go beyond the image: we explore ideas of ‘quiet architecture’, informed by Austrian architect Hermann Czech’s interpretation of ‘Architecture as background’. Our buildings may go unnoticed at first sight, but reveal themselves gradually and become appreciated over time.

Parkville Residence / Steffen Welsch Architects

Daniela Cardenas — Tue, 20 Sep 2016 17:00:00 +0000

In Connect Parkville we pursue the idea of “stitching together” urban fabric with “quiet architecture”, informed by Austrian architect Hermann Czech’s “architecture as background”. We work to principles of “simple moves” and economy: no more, or less, than is necessary to achieve our program.

The Glen Iris House / Steffen Welsch Architects

Cristian Aguilar — Tue, 26 May 2015 17:00:44 +0000

The Glen Iris House is a two storey modern extension to a Californian Bungalow on a good sized block in suburban Melbourne. The original weatherboard house sits on a sloping site and is elevated at the front and level with the ground at the back with no relationship to the outside.

House in House / Steffen Welsch Architects

Cristian Aguilar — Tue, 19 May 2015 18:00:42 +0000

House in House is an exploration of site boundary as limiter, as frame to both internal and external spaces, form and void. House in House is a new build in a streetscape with significant heritage value. Our idea was that the home be an ‘uneasy fit’ within the street, creating a dialogue, an ongoing easy tension, with its predominantly federation style neighbours.