#innercity

Stack & Field is a small but generous extension of a 100-year-old weatherboard house on a tight inner-city block in Melbourne, Australia. It challenges a fundamental assumption of compact urban housing: that density requires consolidation. Located on a constrained and narrow site, the project plan dissolves layout and building form into a series of offset planes, layered rooms and courtyards and substitutes size for spatial richness. Timothy Kaye Timothy Kaye In all our projects we always prioritize the plan, and the fragmented massing is not aesthetic gesture but a primary design strategy. By breaking the building into volumes of varying scale, each zone is calibrated to its function, its relationship to adjacent spaces, and... More