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Shannon McGrath
Architects: Bower Architecture
Location: Melbourne VIC, Australia
Architect in Charge: Jade Vidal
Design Team: Jade Vidal, Chema Bould, Anna Dutton, Ben Shields, Rose Heeley
Area: 460.0 sqm
Project Year: 2014
Photographs: Shannon McGrath
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Shannon McGrath
From the architect. An integral part of our philosophy is that the best design solutions come
out of the most difficult spatial problems. The brief for the Corner House presented us with
the requirement for a relatively large house and interior spaces on a medium sized site. The
challenge was how to satisfy this brief with a contemporary sustainable house that
connected to a quality outdoor space and resulted in an exciting external expression that
was sensitive to its surroundings.
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Rather than the traditional inclusion of front and rear gardens, the design concept sacrificed
a rear garden in order to create a single, bigger front garden. The result of siting the new
dwelling towards the southern rear end of the site to maximise the setback from the main
frontage results in a house which is both exciting and restrained in its street presence,
satisfying its brief and good sustainable design principles.
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External curves and screens soften the patterned sculptural faade, which floats above its
concrete base. The variety of interior living spaces are filled abundant natural light, cross
ventilation and warm materials, resulting in a comfortable and open low energy home all
year round.
The Corner can be reduced into two simple ideas; a house with one high amenity garden
and a broken down building mass. Once this was clarified during the design process many
future design decisions could be made in regards to these two interlocking ideas how
building mass was broken down and softened, where the living spaces and bedrooms would
be, how the entry would work and so on, the expression of the house to the street and
passer-by and so on.
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Corner is sited, shaped and orientated to allow its owners to enjoy a liveable and welcoming
house which interacts with landscape and streetscape.
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"The Corner / Bower Architecture" 10 Mar 2015. ArchDaily. Accessed 8 Jan 2016.
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