Timber batten cladding
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Project • By WALA • Private Houses
Eliza House
CLIENT BRIEF
Eliza House is located in an enviable neighbourhood pocket of Black Rock; within 400m to picturesque Beach Road and walking distance to the Sandringham Beach Foreshore Reserve. The homeowners had a clear ambition of laying roots with their young family in this Bayside community and setting up their forever home. The previous dwelling was a Post-war double-fronted brick-veneered house which was part of the common building stock of its time and did not hold any heritage significance. The old house had familiar characteristics of its Post-war pedigree by way of low ceilings and an awkwardly laid out horse-shoe internal configuration, so the logical decision was made to take a knock-down/rebuild approach.
Dave Kulesza
The ow... More
News • News • 31 Jul 2021
Federal House forms a compelling prospect and refuge relationship with its hinterland Australian site
Within the folding hills of its hinterland site in Federal, Australia, this house by Edition Office was designed as an elemental respite from high-pressure professional life. Through the prospect and refuge relationship to its site, the home provides intimate proximity to the hillside, forest and grassland to the rear of the site, while framing a panoramic gaze across the distant horizon from deep within the heavily inset living platform.
Ben Hosking
From a distance the building is recessive, a shadow within the vast landscape, clad on all four facades and the fifth façade - being the roof - with a highly textural outer skin of thick timber battens.
Ben Hosking
The tightly controlled envelope contains modestly... More