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Detached House . Mossy Point

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The Mossy Point House required a robust design methodology to respond to its modest budget while maintaining an acutely defined relationship to its interior and the surrounding landscape. The simple cement-sheet cladding references the smooth, silvery bark of towering Spotted Gum trees that surround the house, while echoing the tiny ‘fibro’ shack that was the original occupant of the site. Presenting as a single-storey building, the home is perched on a series of parallel block-work walls and was evolved to mediate between the built, the natural and the nuances of contemporary liveability. Continue reading Edition Office

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Art Gallery . Bendigo

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After an in-depth community consultation process, and after a series of design review sessions with the Dja Dja Wurrung traditional owners, our concept design thoughts for Bendigo Art Gallery evolved, surrendering the earlier gestural studies which privileged a highly formal presentation to the street, typical of its colonial era neighbours. We then developed a woven façade language open to all sides, yielding to allow people and landscape alike to flow under through to the gallery’s welcoming interior. Continue reading Edition Office

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231 Napier for Milieu . Melbourne

Edition Office . photos: © Rory Gardiner

Positioned on a peaceful street in the heart of Fitzroy, 231 Napier Street forms eleven exclusive apartments designed by the award winning Melbourne architecture practice, Edition Office.
Surrounded by culture and commerce, this quiet pocket is an understandably coveted spot, bordered by Gertrude, Smith and Brunswick Streets just north of the city. Continue reading Edition Office

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HOUSE for a couple . Kyneton

Edition Office . HOUSE for a couple . Kyneton afasia Ben Hosking (1)

Edition Office . photos: © Ben Hosking

The Kyneton House is defined by its sense of singularity; both as an architectural element within its local context and in the spatial qualities of each room within.
The design process began with a single wall gesture, a repeating brickwork cup. This element was arranged to define the boundaries of the home and of the individual rooms, with the recess of each providing a nesting place for seating, kitchen, study etc. Always returning inwards, this repeating motif formed a thickness to the home’s exterior, providing a deepened reveal to every opening. Continue reading Edition Office