The engineering team put 300 days of difficult trials into the construction process of this imaginative space, designed by
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The ambiguous living room promotes movement and interaction between the inhabitants. Bespoke furniture adds layers of intrigue to the floor plan. A simple
Transient zones lead to novel interactions. The floating base of the
Family life takes place surrounded by the changing of the seasons that tap against vast window panes. Regenerating trees and ephemeral weather shift the mood of the interior.
The interior is full of surprises. Groundbreaking suspension structures allow all private bedrooms to float independently and consecutively above the ground floor.
Free and organic common space on the ground floor is open to possibilities.
The configuration liberalises everyday life, shaping a new philosophy that dissolves public and private bubbles.
Rooms are no longer separated and defined.
There is a simplicity in the industrial style decor of the interior, yet it is full of atmosphere.
A single
A second book stack creates a layered library setup, a room within a room. Small ornaments are interspersed between the tomes.
The steel and wood staircase winds up toward the upper shelves of the made-to-measure bookcase wall. At the top, the treads finally morph into a long mezzanine library, where a watercolour painting marks a peaceful break in the book shelves.
Wood planks have been applied across part of the ceiling space to compliment the natural timber book stacks, as well as to accentuate interesting angles in the architecture.
Concrete flooring runs smoothly through the living space, connecting the library/lounge area with a formal dining setting.
A rattan
Vague mezzanine suspensions uniquely interact with the creative and differentiated living space.
The oak
Internal windows connect concealed volumes with the open common space.
The revolutionary multi-level living environment hangs bedrooms aloft in an independent yet connecting configuration, like treehouses.
Shelves placed along the balustrades establish landing areas as more than mere connective passageways. These rests become living spaces, offering alternative surroundings for study and reflection. Down on the ground floor,
The well-spaced structural system provides a creative way of living for modern families that is a complete departure from traditional architecture.
The floating trait of the upper volumes builds a living space that feels filled with movement and action.
The wooden ‘islands’ of the living room blend with the first floor floating characteristic.
A fissure between two suspended bedrooms cracks open directly above the rectangle dining table. The divide leaves a perfect gap for a dining room suspension light to fall dramatically all the way through.
Scenes of the garden border provide a calming green backdrop for the dining room.
Modern
A minimalist centrepiece of pure white candles tops the table.
The disc-like
A black and grey kitchen cuts into a background of partially rendered exposed brickwork. A white SMEG fridge freezer blends with the light plaster.
The kitchen run pulls around in a large L-shaped configuration.
Black door and window surrounds frame garden views on three sides of the living room.
Connection with the outdoors prevails upstairs on the mezzanine library, and on to the private bedrooms.
Clerestory windows bring added light into the bathroom, to complement a low window down by a unique sunken
Edison bulbs stylise lighting solutions.
Fluidity of space presents unique interplay.
Novel lamps add to the warm glow that subtly emits throughout the house.
Imperfections in the concrete walls only add wabi-sabi beauty.
The place seems to evoke a thirst for knowledge, truth and education. Besides the award winning suspension volumes, it’s the bookstacks and reading nooks that build the most important structure in this home. Technology and TV takes a back seat to all that is on the written page.
Another industrial meets wabi-sabi moment.
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