Home Pavilion
Architecture Residential Northcote, Victoria, Australia
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Description
Home Pavilion celebrates the key social spaces of the family home; the kitchen, dining and living spaces by locating them within a clearly legible pavilion building that holds the corner of its suburban site.
The design evolved out of our client’s childhood experiences growing up in an Eichler home in San Francisco. Eichler’s homes, now regarded as part of the ‘California Modern’ movement typically featured glass walls, post-and-beam construction, and open floorplans.
The pavilion grounds the project with all other elements of the home visually or physically connecting to it. The two double storey elements bookend the extent of the house reducing visual bulk on the corner which is more in keeping to the residential character of the area but atypical to other recent corner developments.
Responding to the corner block, a series of distinct pavilions were proposed, each defined through a series of structural elements. These elements arrange the plan, taking the form of masonry blade walls that support oversized concrete beams that in turn support a series of timber rafters. The considered post and lintel expression reference Eichler, while providing the structure of the spaces, the materiality of the pavilion and defining the social spaces of the home.
Questions and Answers
How does this home contribute the lives of those that live there?
This is the home for clients for the foreseeable future and has been carefully laid out to suit their present and futures selves as their children age.
We were able to capture the mid-century spirit, without being constrained by an existing building, employing contemporary technologies and construction methodologies.
Having spent time living off grid, client wanted to bring these qualities to the suburban site. Included capturing all rainwater and storing in a 15,000L underground tank, with a 3-stage filtration system allowing the rainwater to be drinkable.
House runs entirely from self-generated electricity.
What is the relationship of the home to the site?
A corner block creates a series of unique challenges in the design of the home, the need to create open living areas directly connected to garden spaces while also providing the necessary privacy from the two street frontages.
Our proposal places two smaller footprint double storey volumes at the edges of the site will keeping reducing visual impact at the more public corner at a single level and bookending the edges of the home rather than the centre.
The west facing glazing is protected by a generous roof overhang made possible through the precast concrete beams.
Details
| Project size | 280 m2 |
| Site size | 630 m2 |
| Completion date | 2024 |
| Building levels | 2 |
Project team
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MRTN Architects | |
| Resicon Master Builders |
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