Art Forms
Architecture Residential Victoria, Australia
25 Images
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1. Proposed House plans The house after renovation 4961 px 3508 px 2 MB A4 print |
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2. Existing House Plans The house before renovation 4961 px 3508 px 2 MB A4 print |
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4. Living room garden seat 4480 px 6720 px 19 MB A3 print |
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5. Study and reading nook 6720 px 4480 px 14 MB A3 print |
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6. Rear Courtyard Indoor outdoor connection extending both 6720 px 4480 px 22 MB A3 print |
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7. Floating roof The roof of the extension floats over the existing brick boundary wall 6673 px 6166 px 22 MB A3 print |
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8. Living room art wall 6699 px 5395 px 19 MB A3 print |
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10. Living Room 6720 px 4480 px 19 MB A3 print |
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11. The Owner and the Art at home Art is everywhere including the kitchen 4376 px 6563 px 16 MB A3 print |
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12. Kitchen 6720 px 4480 px 12 MB A3 print |
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13. Laundry object the understair area is converted to a laundry and powder room, then wrapped in joinery 6720 px 4480 px 11 MB A3 print |
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14. Laundry object the understair area is converted to a laundry and powder room, then wrapped in joinery 6720 px 4480 px 11 MB A3 print |
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15. Timber stairs and cupboard Timber stairs and a minimal steel handrail make a feature of a previously tight and dark Victorian stair. A cupboard is concealed in joinery that wraps around fromthe kicthen 4480 px 6720 px 14 MB A3 print |
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16. Collaborators Old friends from Architecture school collaborate on the home 4504 px 6698 px 13 MB A3 print |
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17. Bedroom Retreat A quiet place to think and read on the retreat zone of the main bedroom 4480 px 6720 px 17 MB A3 print |
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18. Main bedroom The sleeping zone viewed from the retreat zone 6720 px 4480 px 13 MB A3 print |
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19. Main bedroom Colourful art and accessories set the mood in the sleeping zone of the main bedroom 2766 px 4129 px 6 MB A4 print |
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20. En Suite Materials and light make the composition of this terrazzo and tile shower with high skylight over 4480 px 6720 px 15 MB A3 print |
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21. En Suite Horizontal bands of tiles, terrazzo, mirror and timber are a composition in themselves 4480 px 6720 px 15 MB A3 print |
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22. Bathroom terrazzo wraps a column that wraps over the shower to frame it 4480 px 6720 px 16 MB A3 print |
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23. The front facade The corner house on a busy corner in the backstreets of Fitzroy. 4480 px 6720 px 19 MB A3 print |
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24. The front facade The corner house on a busy corner in the backstreets of Fitzroy. 4480 px 6720 px 18 MB A3 print |
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Description
An Architect-turned-sculptor Client, and an Architect with a penchant for art, approach the renovation of a Victorian terrace house in the heart of Fitzroy as artists might approach their work. Together they have wrapped, carved out, inserted, framed, coloured, decorated and lit the project as an artist might.
The collaboration between Architect and our Architect-turned-sculptor Client resulted in a sculptural piece of architecture and interior design. The materials are predominantly modest - most of the joinery is laminate, most of the tiles were inexpensive, we used plastic sheet for the balustrade and nook screen, and the Baltic pine floors were kept where possible. The effect is achieved by the design approach, clever compositions of textures colours and light, and thoughtful details.
Questions and Answers
Who are the clients and what's interesting about them?
The clients are a family of four. Dennis and Anne studied Architecture together at RMIT, before Dennis made a career in the art field, working for artists Patricia Piccinnini and Peter Hennessey. His wife Sash is a social worker with an appreciation of beautiful environments.
What was the brief?
Our clients' family house was lovely, but rundown, its center was dark and awkward, the living area too small, the main bedroom had no En suite and there was the usual lack of storage. The Artist Owner came to us with moody grayscale 3D models that expressed some strong conceptual ideas.
What were the solutions?
We worked together to turn the images into real architecture and design, amplifying the carefully modelled ideas by using details, colours, materials and lighting that supported the initial concepts.
We transformed the steep old Victorian stair by wrapping it in feature finishes, and making it glow from within. The unused understair area was turned into an all-blue secret laundry and powder room.
Upstairs the front two rooms were turned into a wide main bedroom with a both sleeping and a relaxation zones. Both of the grand Victorian front windows that overlook the street now belong to this room giving it a European apartment feel. A soaring walk in robe and a skylit en suite are tucked in behind.
How is the project unique?
It is a unique collaboration of Artist and Architect, with the artist approaching the concept with the level of time and thought that would normally be spent on creating artwork, and the Architects and Interior designers adding tt he vision and making it real. Features include: Kitchen joinery wrapped around laundry, which is a reuse of the understair area
- Glowing balustrade
- Stair treated as piece of joinery
- Terrazzo frame in bathroom wrapped up over ceiling, framing bath and window from shower
- Study and reading nook in Living room – part of, but separated from –multifunctional spaces
- Wide shallow master bedroom to profit from front windows, and zoning the space into sleeping and leisure, whilst still accommodating walk in robe and skylit en suite
- Multiple ways to display artwork - walls, shelves, benches, nooks
- Furniture placed as sculptures in space
- Wall lights and furniture placed as sculptural compositions with furniture
Key products used:
Laminex, Dulux paint, Blackbutt timber, Corian, Danpal, Domo furniture, Kvadrat fabrics, Tillings timber blackened, Eco Outdoor Endicott paving, Colourbond cladding, Arte Domus tiles, Academy penny round tiles, Earp bros porcelain tiles, Lapege tiles, Cerdomus terrazzo tiles, Richmond lighting, Euroluce Jasper Morrison pendant, Auburn woodturning joinery handles, Designer Doorware hardware, Bellevue handle, Parisi basins, Faucet Strommen tapware, Villeroy & Boch WCs, Kaldewei bath,
Details
| Project size | 180 m2 |
| Site size | 170 m2 |
| Project Budget | AUD 900,000 |
| Completion date | 2021 |
| Building levels | 2 |
Project team
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Hindley & Co | Architect & Interior Designer |