The Summit
The Summit is a renovation and extension to an idiosyncratic late modernist home in Malvern. The original house features a boldly curved roof, delicately supported on a string of steel posts. A curved wall of glass emulates the roof form, bending inwards to create a side courtyard. With glass and garden on all sides, the house is awash with natural light.
Working collaboratively with the builders at Sinjen Group, Architecture architecture have retained and celebrated these existing features. The living spaces have been remodelled to expose more of the curved glass, bringing them into immediate contact with the courtyard. The original curved ceiling has also been retained and is now lined with timber battens to accentuate this unique feature.
| Location | Malvern |
| Completed | 2019 |
| Construction | Sinjen Group |
| Photography | Tom Ross |
| Details | See floor plans |
Where an upper-level extension has been added, Architecture architecture have been careful not to dilute the clarity of the curved roof. Sensitively perched as if to hover over the original, it allows the new and old to exist harmoniously.
At the rear of the property the design vision finds full force, introducing an entirely contemporary composition of two parts, respectively grounded and lofty.
We could not have asked for more from the team at Aa. Our family has tangibly benefited from their understanding of space. They picked apart our brief, turned it on its head and delivered a design that redefined how we live. We could not be happier with our home!
Tim and Ida
Skygarden
Skygarden has its genesis in tessellated ornament, in the colour fields of abstract art, in the hanging gardens of Babylon, and in James Turrell’s immersive installations where sensory deprivations eventually give rise to figments (and pigments) of imagination.Skygarden
, blossoms in the sky.
Periwinkle
The common periwinkle (or winkle) is a robust intra-warehouse species within the renovation family, characterised by a mostly neutral shell with rosy flourishes about the inner-ablution.Fitzroy
Periwinkle
, unique among its genus.
Park Life
Curious neighbours slow their cars. From between the trees across a vast nature strip, a fence-like shed with a cyclops eye peers back at them. ‘Whose world is this?’ they ask.Williamstown North