1413
Dark Horse
In the heart of the house, the living areasopen onto a courtyard. The high-ceilinged corridors pinwheel out from this heart, establishing a sunlit centre around which
most daily activity occurs.
Location
Brunswick East
Dark Horse
, a handsome creature.1523
Together Apart
Where once they shared a womb, now they share a room; twin girls needing their own space, yet wanting to stay close too.
Location
Hawthorn
Together Apart
, a room for twins.1229
The Kite
Inside and out, the roof rests like a canopy.Sky and foliage are ever-present. Light filters in from all sides marking the passage of a day, while overhead, triangles beget triangles, folding and multiplying against the sky like barely tethered kites.
Location
Albert Park
The Kite
, light and shade.1522
The Skin Job
Slipped in-under an existing timber pergola, this new skin of fine black steel and off-form concrete bears the smile of family life.
Location
Hawthorn
The Skin Job
, the smile of family life.1700
Among Buildings
The culmination of 3 years of wandering around significant Melbourne buildings and reflects on the immaterial experiences of the built environment.
Format
256pp unbound book
Among Buildings
, an unbound book.1623
Park Life
Park Life is a highly contextual extension in Williamstown North. This contemporary design responds to the principles of the ‘garden city’, integrating home, garden and streetscape. In doing so, it continues the vision for the area as laid out by the Housing Commission of Victoria in the 1940s.
Location
Williamstown North
Park Life
, home, garden and streetscape.1309
Hip & Gable
With Hip & Gable, Architecture architecture pays homage to a dignified, long-serving Californian Bungalow, while enticing it to saya little more and to do a little more too.
Location
Kew East
Hip & Gable
, say a little more.1423
Fifty Fifty
Partly inspired by its original 1950s suburban home and partly by the modernist Case Study houses of the same decade. 1950s meets 1950s. About half of each. We’re talking fifty-fifty vision. That’s sharp.
Location
Murrumbeena
Fifty Fifty
, modernist suburban.1403
A Rose by Another
In the grounds of Melbourne’s famedCairo apartments, a crop of wild roses are taking seed. The first was an unlikely shade
of purple. The latest is a rose by another hue, and just as sweet.
Location
Cairo apartments, Fitzroy
A Rose by Another
, fold-down elements.1552
The Summit
A curved wall of glass emulates the roof form, bending inwards to create a more generous side garden. With glass and garden on all sides, the house is awash with natural light.
Location
Malvern
The Summit
, grounded and lofty.1524
The Taranaki Rift
The Taranaki Rift is an inner-suburban rupture off the east bank of Brunswick, initiated inthe early-Turnbullian, due to the expansion of the Goodman van Dyke cluster.
Location
Brunswick East
The Taranaki Rift
, an inner-suburban rupture.1301
White rabbit, white rabbit
Architecture architecture’s interest in themes of uncanny perception and the strangeness of the everyday.
Exhibition
February 2013
White rabbit, white rabbit
, the uncanny.1215
The Purple Rose of Cairo
In a studio apartment of such modest dimension, the smallest modifications makea significant difference to the feel and functionality of the space.
Location
Fitzroy
The Purple Rose of Cairo
, a functional abode.1226
Miller House
From the moment of entry, views shiftand redirect between the courtyards,
light-wells, decks and gardens. Natural light washes the internal space from all directions, encouraging exploration of the various living areas and retreats.
Location
North Fitzroy
Miller House
, irregular gables.1431
Campfire
An idea for a beach house, more like a sheltered campsite than a home.
Status
Concept
Campfire
, A holiday from city life.1218
Extension House
This project extends, and thereby distorts,the Californian bungalow. While it may speak the same language, it does so with unfamiliar inflections.
Location
Brunswick West
Extension House
, with unfamiliar inflections.1900
Lawnbowl Village
Two of the three towers contain high quality, affordable apartments, while the thirdtower houses a childcare centre, a theatre,
art gallery, bookshop, cafes, makerspaces and co-working spaces.
Location
Caulfield South
Lawnbowl Village
, engage and enliven.1714
RMIT City Campus
Within this environment of high spatialdrama, terraced seating and planting establish inviting human-scaled amphitheatres.
Location
Melbourne CBD
RMIT City Campus
, laneway culture.1441
Aa HQ
The interior palette is light and simple, with modest flourishes of detail where bookshelves terminate and cupboard doors open.
Location
Fitzroy
Aa HQ
, floating in a sea of sketches.1314
Little Adelaide Hills
Little Adelaide Hills is a proposal forthe redevelopment of the Royal Adelaide Hospital site.
Client
Royal Adelaide Hospital
Little Adelaide Hills
, exposing its geology.1318
The Portal
From within the shadowy confines of a charming Californian Bungalow, we senta probe, dark and slender, out into the wilds;
a portal into new territories. What we discovered, is new life.
Location
Brunswick West
The Portal
, beyond the home.1711
Chinese Medicine Clinic
The brief called for the provision of three treatment rooms, a reception area and plentyof storage for medicines and equipment.
Location
Northcote
Chinese Medicine Clinic
, a place of comfort.1832
Stage Left
Stage Left is a place of anticipation and reflection; a place to gather and collect with friends and ideas, before and after a show. The prologue and the epilogue. A natural extension of the Arts Centre Melbourne experience.
Location
Melbourne CBD
Stage Left
, anticipation and reflection.1432
Sandy Point
Nestled into the dunes, four pavilions provide shade and shelter.
Location
Sandy Point
Sandy Point
, nestled into the dunes.1799
New Student Precinct
Architecture architecture were one of a select group of practices invited to developideas for the University of Melbourne’s New Student Precinct.
Location
UoM, Parkville Campus
New Student Precinct
, a seamless transition.1213
Stanhill Apartment
At key moments in the design, the otherwise mute black and white aesthetic breaks in a flourish of barely perceptible colour, imbuing the apartment with a sense of quiet mystery.
Location
Albert Park
Stanhill Apartment
, open, cellular planning.1223
Turnaround House
Against the odds, this modest extension has turned a dark, cramped residence with little backyard to spare, into a light-filled house with fantastic indoor and outdoor entertaining areas.
Location
Abbotsford
Turnaround House
, indoor and outdoor.1857
The Scoop
In the heart of the student campus is a cryptof unrealised grandeur. Once an underground carpark, its sweeping field of parabolic vaults promises so much more. Raw concrete arcs out of the ground in defiance of gravity, an expression of aspiration and daring.
Client
University of Melbourne
The Scoop
, social exchange.1011
A Garden Curiosity
Like everything in a garden, its impermanence reveals the passage of time.
Location
Suburb
A Garden Curiosity
, a piece of garden joinery.1707
The Drift
The Drift proposes that there is no audience, only participants. There is no object, and there is no center. Instead a field of scattered Seeds, wired for networked discussion, where ideas may blow-in from any corner of the garden.
Status
Competition entry for the NGV
The Drift
, no audience, only participants.1874
RMIT Business Behavioural Lab
The brief required a thorough understandingof the stakeholders’ needs in order to deliver a laboratory where academics undertake controlled behavioural experiments with verifiable results.
Location
Melbourne CBD
RMIT Business Behavioural Lab
, verifiable results.1500
Friend or Pho
Recycled materials were adopted to reflect the Vietnamese culture of re-use, where nothing is wasted. The overall effect is reminiscent of the lantern-lit eateries of Hanoi An.
Location
Yarraville
Friend or Pho
, contemporary Vietnamese.1554
Urban Coup
Architecture architecture is currently working in collaboration with Breathe Architecture on the design and delivery of a Nightingale co-housing development for Urban Coup.
Location
Brunswick
Urban Coup
, socially integrated ways.1555
Nightingale Housing
Nightingale revolutionizes multi-residential development by establishing a freely available, cost-transparent, open-source model in which designers work directly with purchasers, for the purposes of creating environmentally, socially and financially sustainable homes.
Location
Brunswick
Nightingale Housing
, sustainable homes.1801
Unliveable Berlin
With its chequered history of cultural exclusion and ideological seclusion, as well as an impressive record of refugee accommodation, Berlin presents a unique case study in the urban consequences of social disunity and cohesion.
Location
Berlin