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Nightingale Ballarat Residential Building / Breathe Architecture

Hana Abdel — Thu, 20 Jul 2023 20:00:00 +0000

It’s 1854, and the city of Ballarat is alive with activity. People live upstairs in the center of town while making a living below. The tram rattles up and down Sturt Street to meet the growing city's transport needs. Fast forward 165 years, post-motor vehicle ownership, through planning and zoning changes. Residents have fled to the city’s edges, to single houses following the great Australian Dream. After dark, Ballarat is now eerily quiet, a beautiful but dormant city. Continued urban sprawl, climate change, and an aging population have become of great concern for the city.

388 Barkly Street Apartments / DREAMER + Breathe Architecture

Valeria Silva — Tue, 21 Mar 2023 02:00:00 +0000

388 Barkly Street is a collection of 11 sustainable apartments led by DREAMER, in collaboration with Breathe Architecture. The project is an adaptive reuse of a c.1930 brick warehouse encouraging sustainable, small-footprint living.

Edgars Creek House / Breathe Architecture

Pilar Caballero — Wed, 25 Jan 2023 20:00:00 +0000

This home is respectful of the country. Perched on the banks of Edgar’s Creek, overlooking sandstone cliffs and iron bar trees, Edgars Creek House is designed to connect to nature. Instead of presiding over the landscape, it offers an opportunity to live simply as part of a system. Rather than fitting the site to the house, we fit the house to the site. Edgar’s Creek House is made up of a series of undulating volumes that step into the landscape, responding to the slope of the site. It is a continuum of indoor and outdoor, light and dark environments, winding and stepping through a series of spaces, clad in raw, natural materials. It is simple and honest in its approach to siting and planning, precisely framing views of surrounding trees.

Arkadia / Breathe Architecture + DKO

Paula Pintos — Wed, 20 May 2020 02:00:00 +0000

Arkadia started as a series of considerations that questioned the nature of multi-residential development in Australia;

Stonewood House / Breathe Architecture

Andreas Luco — Fri, 26 Jul 2019 19:00:00 +0000

Stonewood is efficient: its elegant plan offers flexibility for a humble family. It's operable screens transform connecting spaces, sectioning large areas into intimate nooks, directing views, and channelling breezes. Folding and unfolding according to use, Stonewood reveals a different story in each configuration, appearing effortlessly spacious within a modest footprint. Stonewood presents an aspirational solution to a designing on a modest bu dget. The 8.5 star rated home utilizes elegant planning, and passive methods of thermal comfort to tackle a site presenting a series of dichotomous interests. With a street address and sun to the north, privacy to the south, and heritage context to the west; Stonewood’s operable façade serves to resolve each of these needs.

Slack Asia Pacific Headquarters / Breathe Architecture

Andreas Luco — Thu, 18 Jul 2019 17:00:00 +0000

The heart of this project is about providing a state-of-the-art office for a 21st century tech company in a historically significant heritage building in Melbourne, the Maltstore. It is the intersection between a distinct past and an exciting future, where the digital, industrial and fabricated meets the natural, crafted and personal.

The Commons / Breathe Architecture

Andreas Luco — Wed, 17 Jul 2019 22:00:00 +0000

This is old Brunswick, it’s industrial, it’s run down and it’s dirty. It sounds gruesome but there is also a strange endearing quality about this area. The silver lining is the people of Brunswick. It is a melting pot of migrant activity, Italian, Greek, Turkish, Lebanese, African all coming together here. There is no judgment, everyone is part of one totally imperfect community.The Commons is an experiment in building an urban community. It could have only worked in a few Melbourne locations. There is no accident that it sits adjacent to Anstey Station in the heart of old Brunswick.

Transformer Fitzroy / Breathe Architecture

Daniel Tapia — Wed, 17 Jul 2019 18:00:00 +0000

The site, vacant for many years, was formerly an electrical transformer factory. The existing building had layers of character from its past, including a small courtyard tucked behind the warehouse covered in ivy, which became key to the design concept – to extend the experience of the garden inside. This concept interlinked perfectly with the owner’s intention to deliver an experience which was experimental yet simple.

Tinderbox House / Breathe Architecture

Daniel Tapia — Mon, 15 Jul 2019 18:00:00 +0000

Early site inspections at the c.1887 former Foy and Gibson historic brick warehouse complex revealed an apartment fit out with a series of unfortunate conversions. Perhaps described best as a ‘fire-trap’, we began exploring conceptual possibilities relating to the tinderbox and its three core elements. Comprising flint, tinder, and firesteel, this common 18^thcentury fire starting kit inspired a material narrative. Accent colors in red and yellow, light timbers with exposed joists and battens, exposed metalwork, and charred or blackened finishes formed the palette for the loft refurbishment.

Bardolph Gardens / Breathe Architecture

María Francisca González — Sun, 07 Jul 2019 23:00:00 +0000

Taking cues from its surrounding architectural context, Bardolph Gardens consists of two single storey dwellings that provide environmentally sustainable, affordable, and well designed rental housing in Glen Iris. Occupying what was an under-utilised open space at the rear of two existing Californian bungalows, the dwellings are architecturally and formally respectful to the immediate residential context.

Prospect House / Breathe Architecture

Pilar Caballero — Thu, 23 May 2019 02:00:00 +0000

On a windy and exposed site, nestled behind a hill, sits a metal clad nugget; a home for a gold prospector and his family. Taking material and spatial cues from miner’s cottages and the country shed vernacular, this is a small house on a large rural block. Surrounded by pastoral rolling fields on the fringes of a state forest and proximate to a rich history of Victoria’s Gold Rush, the site is vast yet humble. The compact form was inspired by the client’s desire for retreat, and at under 100 square meters and for less than $260,000, was achieved for a similarly modest budget.

Halo House / Breathe Architecture

Andreas Luco — Wed, 22 May 2019 02:00:00 +0000

Drawing inspiration from the Halo Effect, this project takes the form of a faceted, textural “iceberg” from the outside, and a protected yet lofty refuge internally. Halo House acts as a provider and protector for its inhabitants, granting a young family with a sanctum in which to grow and thrive.

Breathe Offices / Breathe Architecture

Pilar Caballero — Tue, 21 May 2019 18:00:00 +0000

The Breathe Architecture Studio is about a homecoming to The Commons – its a decisive project for the practice, and one that continues to serve as a tool to express our architectural priorities and identity. Tucked behind a maze of bicycle parking in the southwest corner of The Commons, you enter through an inconspicuous door, hand-painted signage the only clue to what lays beyond. As the Breathe team grew over time, so did the studio – eventually occupying the adjacent tenancy.

Double Life House / Breathe Architecture

Pilar Caballero — Fri, 17 May 2019 01:00:00 +0000

Double Life is a house for two introverts living in a world of extroverts. It is an attempt to keep them sane, to protect their true identities from the outside world. It’s their hideout, their fortress of solitude. A mild mannered exterior, but an interior made of steel and strength.

Paramount House Hotel / Breathe Architecture

Andreas Luco — Mon, 08 Apr 2019 02:00:00 +0000

Amid a suite of heritage and inter-war buildings in Sydney’s Surry Hills, Paramount House Hotel occupies a 3-storey 1930s brick warehouse, adjacent to the historic Paramount House (c.1940s). Completing an irregular city block once associated with film pioneers Paramount Pictures Studio, and 20th Century Fox Film Association, the hotel celebrates its historic context.

Nightingale 1 / Breathe Architecture

Paula Pintos — Tue, 26 Feb 2019 19:00:00 +0000

This is old Brunswick, it’s industrial, and it’s run down, yet there exists a strangely endearing quality of this area - it’s people; it’s sense of community. It is a melting pot of migrant activity, everyone coming together to form one totally imperfect community. Emerging from the success of neighbouring apartment building The Commons, Nightingale 1 is the inaugural project of the Nightingale Model - a replicable, triple bottom line housing model with an overarching priority towards social, economic and environmental sustainability.

Brick & Gable House / Breathe Architecture

Pilar Caballero — Tue, 01 Jan 2019 20:00:00 +0000

Designed for a family of four. We were initially engaged to build a larger house for them, but after spending time living overseas, they returned realising that they could live in a smaller footprint.

Captain Melville / Breathe Architecture

Fernanda Castro — Wed, 03 Jul 2013 00:00:00 +0000