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Sumit Singhal
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.

Acute House in Melbourne, Australia by OOF! architecture

 
December 2nd, 2021 by Sumit Singhal

Article source: OOF! architecture

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.

The original, and extremely decrepit, Victorian weatherboard cottage had become impossible to inhabit but was well loved by the neighbourhood as well as its new owners.

We tried to retain its weathered character by re-using as much original fabric as possible from warped weatherboards and fence palings to random accumulations such as door knobs, vents and street numbers. Like fragile museum artefacts, these were carefully removed, labelled, stored and re-installed in their original location on a new mount that not only highlights their charms by contrast but allows the house to live again in a new way.

Image Courtesy © Nic Granleese

  • Architects: OOF! architecture
  • Project: Acute House
  • Location: Melbourne, Australia
  • Photography: Nic Granleese
  • Completion date: 2017

Image Courtesy © Nic Granleese

Image Courtesy © Nic Granleese

Image Courtesy © Nic Granleese

Image Courtesy © Nic Granleese

Image Courtesy © Nic Granleese

Image Courtesy © Nic Granleese

Image Courtesy © Nic Granleese

Image Courtesy © Nic Granleese

Image Courtesy © Nic Granleese

Image Courtesy © Nic Granleese

Image Courtesy © Nic Granleese

Image Courtesy © Nic Granleese

Image Courtesy © Nic Granleese

Image Courtesy © Nic Granleese

Image Courtesy © OOF! architecture

Image Courtesy © OOF! architecture

Image Courtesy © OOF! architecture

Image Courtesy © OOF! architecture

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