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Shack in the Rocks / Sean Godsell Architects

Hana Abdel — Thu, 10 Jun 2021 07:00:00 +0000

The site is in country Victoria approximately one hour’s drive west of Melbourne. A previous scheme for this site was shelved due to cost. In reappraising the problem we suggested to our client that they might consider a simple farm shed to provide rudimentary accommodation on a different part of the site from the previous scheme. They had already erected a large machinery shed with solar panels and rainwater collection tanks uphill from where we agreed a very simple adaptation of a hayshed might occur.

Green House / Sean Godsell Architects

Daniel Sánchez — Mon, 29 Mar 2021 21:00:00 +0000

Alterations and additions to a small heritage listed timber cottage in inner suburban Melbourne. Planning and heritage requirements and construction costs fundamentally drove the outcome of this project. Our client came to us wanting a new house. For reasons only known and understood by the local authorities the existing cottage was deemed to be of some historical significance. We disagreed with that assessment but to no avail. It was a case of limp-wristed facadism by the authorities and heritage 'experts'. Instead of abandoning our client we agreed to start from scratch, keeping the front section of the cottage and reworking it and then building a discrete fully new section at the rear of the block. I saw the project in a different light and chose to re-visit some projects that had inspired me as a young architect - Kazuo Shinohara's 'House in White' and 'House in Hanayama No 3' and Tadao Ando's 'Row House in Sumiyoshi' or 'Azuma House' as it is sometimes known. The 'Row House in Sumiyoshi' is a work of genius and I have written elsewhere about that building describing it as 'a seminal work of the second half of the twentieth century'.

House in the Hills / Sean Godsell Architects

Daniel Tapia — Thu, 28 Feb 2019 20:00:00 +0000

The site was excised from a working sheep farm. It consists of 25 hectares of cleared and underworked paddocks. It slopes from its mid-length highpoint to the north and south - both slopes having spectacular views. An established windbreak of Cyprus pines flanks the west boundary and provides a degree of protection from the prevailing south-westerly winds which pummel the south slope, making it a less desirable location for a new house. In this part of Australia, the southerly winds are cold. In fact, the wind fundamentally dictated the design of this building.

Edward Street House / Sean Godsell Architects

Daniel Sánchez — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 00:00:00 +0000

This house is for an artist and his musician wife and their three young children. The site is in inner suburban Melbourne approximately 4 km from the CBD. There is an existing bluestone duplex at the front of the site that is Heritage listed. These are conditions that are unusual and refreshing for my office which has not dealt with the problem of a suburban house since Kew House of 1997.

Tanderra House / Sean Godsell Architects

Fernanda Castro — Mon, 25 Feb 2013 01:00:00 +0000

The fluid nature of verandah space has been integral to my research into houses for some time now. From this research two distinct elements have emerged in my work – the (anti-tectonic) outer skin and the ambiguous plan where use, function, inside and outside are organised in accordance with the non dogmatic nature of verandah space as it exists in the Australian context. The operable outer skin protects and shades, opens and closes spaces to views and nurtures the occupants.