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Sumit Singhal
Sumit Singhal loves modern architecture. He comes from a family of builders who have built more than 20 projects in the last ten years near Delhi in India. He has recently started writing about the architectural projects that catch his imagination. Gold Street House in Brunswick, Australia by Kavellaris Urban DesignJune 18th, 2011 by Sumit Singhal
Article source: Kavellaris Urban Design The Gold Street House responds to the rear lane way like character which consists of garage doors, timber back yard fences and at times neglected left over spaces from the terrace houses that front the opposing street. We felt that these homes (like many terrace typologies) abandoned the rear of their Terraces fronting Gold Street and in doing so over the years cultivated a language of gable/hipped roof building forms and utilitarian lean to structures constructed of light weight material such as compressed sheet; a very low tech economically driven decision.  Front View
 Staircase Our response was to celebrate and reinterpret our context rather than to pretend that it was not there (the elephant we cannot see in the corner so to speak). The strategy was to insert a galvanized steel portal frame that encompasses the entire perimeter of the structure. The structural element is diagrammatically and symbolically translated as the ‘symbol’ of a ‘house’ as opposed to a simple ambiguous and anonymous out building.  Bedroom The materiality of the house incorporates and engages with the architectural language surrounding the contextual vernacular of black metal wall and roof cladding, painted compressed sheeting and timber panelling. By critically arranging these materials and their application, the house proudly and boldly addresses the street in its bright red and purple colours.  Bedroom The plan inverts the traditional terrace program with the active living zones on the first floor opening onto a north facing balcony and incorporates passive sustainable design such as northern oriented glass bi-fold doors and louvers for cross ventilation as the primary means of cooling, solar hot water and 5-star rated sanitary fixtures.  Bedroom  Balcony  Interior View  Living & Dining Room  Interior View  Dining Room  Street View
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