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Wings Way House / MRTN Architects

Miwa Negoro — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 19:00:00 +0000

Resilience and endurance were at the forefront of the minds of the family at Wings Way in Skene's Creek. Having lost their original, much-loved, family home to fire, they needed the replacement design to provide a sense of safety and permanence that was missing from the fibre cement-clad seventies home that preceded it.

Home Pavilion / MRTN Architects

Miwa Negoro — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 19:00:00 +0000

Home Pavilion celebrates the key social spaces of the family home: the kitchen, dining, and living spaces by locating them within a clearly legible pavilion building that holds the corner of its suburban site.

Ember House / MRTN Architects

Hana Abdel — Mon, 25 Dec 2023 01:00:00 +0000

The clients had extended the house by adding to the existing home. One is a space to work, and the other is a space not to work. The site was a fairly typical suburban backyard but with more of a bush feeling to it rather than a mowed lawn. It was a unique project as it didn’t conform to traditional ideas of ‘extending’ a home. Instead, it was providing two very specific spaces that suited the highly considered requirements of two individuals.

House in the Dry / MRTN Architects

Hana Abdel — Wed, 27 Sep 2023 02:00:00 +0000

This semi-rural house on ex-grazing land in Tamworth was designed to transform a scrubby, parched piece of land into an energy-efficient contemporary home set within a landscape of regenerated native plants.

West Bend House / MRTN Architects

Hana Abdel — Sun, 19 Jun 2022 23:00:00 +0000

West Bend House was conceived as an inhabited pathway, a means to traverse the long narrow site from the street to the expansive rear garden with views over the banks of Merri Creek. We wanted to give this family of five, with children quickly becoming young adults, the ability to be independent and have time apart but also create varied spaces to come together that were not necessarily constrained as living or dining spaces. Giving all members of the family spaces to be apart and spaces to be together.

Hide House / MRTN Architects

Hana Abdel — Fri, 17 Jun 2022 18:00:00 +0000

Venus Bay is located in South Gippsland, a narrow peninsula of land with Bass Strait to the southwest and Anderson’s Inlet to the northeast. Hide House in Venus Bay is located on the crest of a sand dune amongst coastal Tea Tree. The house enjoys views of the waterways of the inlet to the north and the grassy tidal plains to the east while turning its back to the strong predominant south westerly winds that are a common feature of the area.

The Good Life House / MRTN Architects

Paula Pintos — Wed, 18 Nov 2020 02:00:00 +0000

Good Life House is a suburban family home located in Fairfield for a family of five. The family, like all families, is made up of a group of individuals that live together. Mark and Kate were clear in articulating from the beginning that a home needs to accommodate the family as a group and as a collection of individuals, that they needed to be able to live together and also ‘live together apart’. The home needed to provide beyond the traditional kitchen, living, and dining living spaces and allow a range of social and alone activities to occur. It also needed to be a space of learning and exploring and playing.

Trentham Long House / MRTN Architects

Daniel Tapia — Mon, 01 Apr 2019 02:00:00 +0000

Trentham is a slow-paced kind of place. Nestled atop the Great Dividing Range 100km north of Melbourne, this once-upon-a-time gold mining town is now a quiet country escape whose inhabitants relish its crisp, cool country air and quiet, traffic-free streets. It's only appropriate then that visiting Trentham Long House is akin to stepping back in time. Indeed, the house is a delicately balanced moment between old-fashioned simplicity and the conveniences of contemporary life.

Nulla Vale House and Shed / MRTN Architects

Daniel Tapia — Sun, 30 Sep 2018 20:00:00 +0000

To reach Nulla Vale you continue driving past Tullamarine Airport for an hour. Just past the airport the landscape changes from tract housing to pastoral land and small rural communities. Dotted along the drive are old agricultural outbuildings and early settler dwellings. Simple structures, almost primitive, that are part of the landscape. Nostalgia for this connection between land and building was the guiding principle for our Nulla Vale House and Shed.

Rathmines House / MRTN Architects

Pilar Caballero — Wed, 02 May 2018 16:00:00 +0000

The age-old adage that the heart of the home is the kitchen could not more true for this family home located in Fairfield, Melbourne.

Dark Light House / MRTN Architects

Pilar Caballero — Wed, 11 Apr 2018 19:00:00 +0000

Located in Rye on the Mornington Peninsular, Dark Light House is a modest addition to a family home designed and built in the late sixties. Originally built as a holiday home the owners’ required additional living space but not at the expense of the detail and character of the original. Our design connects the addition to corner of the original and creates a play between light and dark, east and west, new and old. Through a minor intervention of the existing and a small addition the entire house is reimagined. The whole is greater than the sum of its parts.

House Under Eaves / MRTN Architects

Daniela Cardenas — Thu, 13 Oct 2016 17:00:00 +0000

Located in a new subdivision less than an hour from Auckland this new house was one of the first built on a flat site that has been split up to create well sized semi-suburban semi-coastal sections on what was once pastoral land.

Venus Bay Beach House / MRTN Architects

Diego Hernández — Wed, 12 Mar 2014 01:00:00 +0000

The client’s needs were fairly straightforward. A holiday home for them and their three children, an easy to maintain and robust house, and enough space so that another family could came and stay as well. The challenge lay in providing the accommodation and living space required for a limited and tight budget.