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Urban Barnyard House / Inbetween Architecture

Andreas Luco — Fri, 22 Mar 2019 02:00:00 +0000

Affectionately dubbed the 'urban-barnyard house', the original house was an early 1900s, 2 bedroom Edwardian weatherboard cottage. Our clients came to us looking for more space, to accommodate the demands of their family now and into the future. A bit wary of vast expanses of 'open plan', they expressed a want for a balance of functional family spaces with more intimate zones with flexibility for future needs.

Plumbers House / Finnis Architects

Rayen Sagredo — Mon, 19 Nov 2018 17:00:00 +0000

Plumbers house by Finnis Architects, is a bold and unashamedly modern addition to a suburban street in Strathmore, Melbourne.

Aireys Ramp House / Irons McDuff Architecture

Rayen Sagredo — Wed, 10 Oct 2018 21:00:00 +0000

Intent was to create a strong sense of escape to the coastal bushland, for a client looking for spatial reprieve from their small dwelling and a timber dwelling. The challenge was its location in a bushfire prone, suburban sub-division. Simple principles of defence against cold ocean winds and hot westerly sun, maximising north light and tightly planned circulation, led to the idea of an arm of enveloping the private space within, wrapping itself around as protection against the prevailing conditions.

Mornington Beach Houses / Habitech Systems

Cristobal Rojas — Fri, 25 May 2018 19:00:00 +0000

Situated near Melbourne on the Mornington Peninsula, this project on the Mornington foreshore creates two double storey houses on a lot facing Port Phillip Bay and bordering the mouth of a local creek.

Lawes St Extension – Hawthorn / Habitech Systems

Daniel Tapia — Wed, 16 May 2018 17:00:00 +0000

The Hawthorn - Lawes Street extension is a project to rejuvenate an original Victorian cottage and bring it up to modern, high performing standards. The street façade was to be refinished and the rear addition replaced with a modern and efficient open living space. The property had been brown brick-clad in the eighties with an ineffective addition to the rear.

Avonlea House / Robinson Architects

Daniel Tapia — Wed, 28 Feb 2018 17:00:00 +0000

"Simplicity resonates through the design in its connection to environment,material selection and spacial planning. Named after the majestic Queensland house that once occupied the site, Avonlea was designed and built for a young family and stands on a commanding elevated hillside site in the centre of the market town of Eumundi."

Cubby Office / Krisna Cheung Architects

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

The line dividing work and personal life are getting blurry in this age of technology, and it’s no exception for architects. This personal project, the extension to the previous Studio Garage project, utilizes similar facade but for a different purpose, and therefore, a different type of commercial space is built inside it.

Glass Link House / Robbie Walker

Rayen Sagredo — Mon, 15 May 2017 16:00:00 +0000

We bought this house about three years ago. We were living in Richmond, feeling very cool in a converted old grocery store that I had just finished renovating. But after the birth of our second baby, the stairs, busy streets and a stupidly high mortgage (that meant we couldn’t go to any of the nice coffee shops we lived next door to anyway) it started to get to us.

22 Skinny Houses With a Narrow Footprint and a Broad Impact

María Francisca González — Tue, 25 Apr 2017 06:00:00 +0000

Skinny houses have a wider appeal than their footprint would suggest. With cities becoming denser, and land becoming rare and expensive, architects are increasingly challenged to design in urban infill spaces previously overlooked. Although designing within these unusual parameters can be difficult, they often require an individual, sensitive response, which can often lead to innovative, playful, even inspiring results. With that in mind, here are 22 houses with a narrow footprint, and a broad impact.

The Turn House / Architecton

Sabrina Leiva — Tue, 28 Feb 2017 19:00:00 +0000

The Turn House is located in Melbourne and features a modern extension to an existing property that was built in 1927.
The owners of the property are car enthusiasts and their pride and joy, a 1970 Ford XY, features prominently in the design thinking. Because of the layout of the original house only one garage space was available. To overcome this, a mechanical turn table was installed that allows 2 vehicles to enter the garage and then be rotated.

The Acute House / OOF! architecture

Daniela Cardenas — Thu, 24 Nov 2016 18:00:00 +0000

Acute House is the transformation of a 'renovator's nightmare' into a compact 21st century family home. The severe limitations of a tiny, very triangular site and the demanding heritage context have resulted in a pointy new wedge of house that is designed to exploit its problems.

Yellow Earth / TANDEM design studio

Cristian Aguilar — Thu, 26 Nov 2015 17:00:00 +0000

The client brief for Yellow Earth’s flagship store at Emporium was to create a unique and memorable shopping experience that improved brand awareness and raised perceived merchandise value. The shop combines elements inspired by the wool industry with the visual clarity of gallery design, to create a zoned shopping experience of interwoven stories.

Ramp House / Architects Corner

Daniel Sánchez — Thu, 27 Aug 2015 16:00:00 +0000

This 4-bedroom home responds to and reflects the elements and objects randomly located in its rural context of Warragul, Victoria. It’s curved form and aspect offer functional space, unparalleled views and access to light.

Willow Grove / Finnis Architects

Cristian Aguilar — Wed, 10 Jun 2015 19:00:36 +0000

Finnis Architects have designed a small three bedroom house for a couple moving to the away from the city and created a modest and environmentally friendly home to enjoy their new surroundings.

Hello House / OOF!

Daniel Sánchez — Mon, 29 Dec 2014 01:00:00 +0000

The Hello House is a two-bedroom Victorian-era home and creative studio (and former shop) in Richmond, Melbourne (VIC), Australia. Most noticeably, the home features a large, white-brick wall featuring the word ‘HELLO’, that offers a conversation with the neighbouring buildings and its residents.

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.

Wallaby Lane House / Robinson Architects

Daniel Sánchez — Fri, 14 Feb 2014 00:00:00 +0000

Wallaby Lane House and Studio are located at Tinbeerwah on the Sunshine Coast. The dwellings were designed by Jolyon Robinson of Robinson Architects for a family relocating from Sydney, with construction finalised late 2013.

Tinbeerwah House / Robinson Architects

Daniel Sánchez — Tue, 11 Feb 2014 00:00:00 +0000

Access was a challenge from the start. The site is magnificent but very steep in places. A beautiful creek is crossed at the bottom of a steep descent before the track meanders off through the bush & then up to reach the house site. A new 400metre track was required to get there. Some clearing was required to build, but much importance was placed on minimizing the disturbance to the site & its surrounds. The house is itself is designed on a grid system of steel portal frames orientated to the north.