Located in an historic and tightly-held pocket of inner-city Melbourne, this recently completed townhouse development features six bespoke urban residences. The development balances a heritage setting with contemporary sustainable design, redefining typical urban townhouse design to hero connection with the landscape and surrounds, and to feature intriguing details.
Sitting peacefully in an open field, this off‐the‐grid sustainable house captures the views without compromising on environmental performance.
Located at Franklinford in Victoria’s Central Highlands, the four‐bedroom home is shared between two families, providing a gathering place for the extended family and a place to relax and relish the joys of rural life.
Less than five metres in radius, St Andrews Beach House is an object in the landscape. A Euclidean form set amongst the rough and sandy terrain it provides – in modest form – everything you would need and want in a beach shack.
The Basic Brief
Australians have some of the biggest houses in the world and holiday houses are increasingly becoming carbon copies of the suburban home. The owner of St Andrews Beach House recognised this. He challenged us to design him a ‘bach’ – a New Zealand word used to describe a very modest, small and basic shack, or shed.
A new-world outpost of the global Moët Hennessy sparkling wine house, a subsidiary of LVMH, Domaine Chandon has been making superlative méthode traditionelle sparkling wine in the crisp, verdant Yarra Valley for over thirty years.
Our brief was to overhaul the site and create a new brand-immersion across bar, dining, tasting and retail spaces. Inspired by the uplifting ritual of spontaneously popping the cork, we’ve celebrated heritage with a fresh affair fit for the 21st century. Views of the incredible surrounding landscape were a natural starting point for considering the visitor experience, the range of which will traverse loyalists and locals, diehard food and wine thrill-seekers, ‘gramming millennials and new discoverers alike. Fearless application of colour reflects the extraordinary tonal shifts in the environs throughout the seasons.
With one parent working from home, and 2 active young boys, it was clear that this family wanted to significantly improve the way they spent their days. Their starting point was a small pre-loved 1930’s double brick bungalow, and a very tight budget.
As a verbally active family, it was important to incorporate in the design the active use of words; and the storage and presentation of their books.
Our client also required spaces that were flexible, and materials that were robust. And they wanted to do this without having to resort to “open plan” living.
Situated at 44-54 Kambrook Road, Caulfield North the design brief for Olea Residence was to provide an architectural solution which complemented both the existing neighbourhood character and street presence of Caulfield North, whilst delivering an individual and luxurious architectural addition to the site. The client required the design response to have a boutique feel whilst appealing to a wide range of potential buyers with the inclusion of various sized townhouses and apartments. The success of Olea Residences depended on a stand out architectural resolution to attract investors and owners alike. Key elements were the incorporation of green spaces, the successful integration of indoor/outdoor living areas and the privacy of residences thus ensuring a personal feel despite dwelling in a residential development.
This project is for modest yet highly detailed alterations and additions to an existing detached weatherboard Edwardian residence with a rear Western aspect in Camberwell, Victoria. As well as the proposed living area additions, the brief called for the upgrading of existing bath rooms, wardrobes, improved internal circulation, the provision of a swimming pool, and landscaped utility areas.
Tucked neatly behind a weatherboard house in Melbourne’s leafy north‐east sits a two‐storey modular extension that is bold yet refined and has transformed the way the clients live.
In need of extra space for their growing family the clients decided to employ a modular solution and extend their home rather than move. The extension is open, filled with natural light and beautifully compliments its leafy suburban location.
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.
The house sits firmly along a winding ridgeline on the outskirts of the small township of Fish Creek. The home surrounds itself in a highly textured brickwork wall in response to its exposed position to strong local winds and a nearby country road. This long wall wraps the three nested, black timber pavilions of the house like a rough and coarse blanket and offers them shelter while they sit upon the lower wall edge and gaze out upon the undulating and extraordinary coastline of Wilsons Promontory. The three pavilions are pulled out from each other and from the northern edge of the rough brick wall to allow sunlight to slide deep into a series of sheltered and planted courtyards that offer immediate garden and deck relationships to the interior spaces. These interiors provide a warm and robust palette of timber-lined walls, black-pigmented concrete floors and black form-ply ceilings.
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