Exterior Impression
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Plan - Duplex Living
Plan - Seperate Living
Interior Impression
Project Overview
The typical Australian Suburban home can be expressed within the most subtle of details. The yard. The yard becoming a space in which negotiates suburban relationships and relationships within the house itself. The plan becoming an expression of vertical and horizontal bands in which create voids for exterior connetions.
The standard master bedroom with ensuite, 2 extra bedrooms, kitchen, bathroom, living and theatre room becoming an expression of typical dwelling with subtle architectural details dividing space and allowing for the duplex reading of a home studio situation. The boundary becoming space of unmaintained gardens.
The plan sits under a single hip roof. This roof enhancing the voids below created through plan, to further place influence to the suburban Australian yard conditions.
The slight overhang to the open void invites the idea of cars/outdoor activities to the side of the house, creating a connection between the living inside and outside through open double doors to read as one single space.
The raised floor on timber stilts for slight topopgraphical change allowing for a more flat ordinary reading of the suburb, yet also hinting at the importance of the ground and the garden conditions in which the house is situated in.
Arranged as a copy of eachother, (not mirrored) refering to typical australian suburbs, the repetition creates opportunity for the architecture to assist in the expression of contents and individuality to be expressed in the suburb. The architecture not defining what the space should be.
Whilst being situated in middle of the allocated land, yet slightly forward to futher promote the front yard, and still have the privacy of either side yards.
Duplex Studio
Architect: Chris van Corler
Tutor: Andrew Power & Kate Finning
Year: 2021
Location: New South Wales, Australia
Status: Proposal