"Reshaping the interior of an existing apartment, CoLAB Design Studio opens the floorplan to ensure an outward engagement from all areas within the home. The resulting Duncan Residence sees layered crafted timber elements and newly formed gestures throughout add an embedded warmth and overlay an integral handmade sensibility, binding each of the spaces.

As a balancing of light and lightness, Duncan Residence avoids a tonal palette and instead integrates key textural nuances through materiality to ensure a connection to the natural elements beyond the home. Sitting within the lively Southbank precinct in Melbourne, within close adjacency to the famed Hamer Hall, the proximity and closeness to the surrounding civic prominence of the area demands an equally impressive interior resolve.

With views out that firmly ground the residence in place, the interior needed to become a more elevated version of its previous self – a mid-1990s serviced apartment offering. In response, CoLAB Design Studio brings an attention to detailing and refined junctions to carefully craft the new spaces." Words by Bronwyn Marshall via The Local Project