HONESTY vs DECEPTION
Buildings, like humans, can be dishonest. They could be excellent architectural gems, but not necessarily honest. is not uncommon to see people getting into accepting ugly architecture on the grounds that the alternative, an intervention which is complementary to its situation and unabashedly traditional, is dishonest pastiche.
"Whatever is pretended, is wrong" - John Ruskin
Everyone preferred to obtain a real quality product over a rip-off product, in this case is same goes to architecture buildings.
An Honest Expression by Stephen Crafti
In Surrey Hills, Melbourne, there were 2 young boys waiting for years to build their dream home, they came across an idyllic site that had both two street frontages and a public thoroughfare along one side.
“It’s a beautiful tree-lined street and quite a special site,” says architect Drew Carling, director of Maddison Architects.
In Surrey Hills, Melbourne, there were 2 young boys waiting for years to build their dream home, they came across an idyllic site that had both two street frontages and a public thoroughfare along one side.
“It’s a beautiful tree-lined street and quite a special site,” says architect Drew Carling, director of Maddison Architects.
As the main frontage is orientated to the south, and the site is gently elevated approximately two meters to the north, it was decided fairly early in the discussion phase to locate the basement car parking below the elevated first floor to the street. The owners can either drive their cars into the basement and access the hub of the house (kitchen and living areas) or alternatively use the side path to the front door. There's a perforated steel to clad the front facade as well as to create a canopy over the front door which continues inside to form part of the ceiling and ‘cascades’ down one wall.
Given planning there was a need to create areas for the children together with informal and formal areas for the family. So the kitchen and meals area is located at the core of the floor plan, with the formal dining and living area ‘peeling’ off to the northeast. And while the kitchen is open to the formal areas, a change in ceiling height, to approximately six meters allows for formal entertaining on a grand scale.
To accentuate the forms, both of the living areas and the house itself, Maddison Architects included two dramatic voids. They wanted to bring additional light into the core of the house. But also wanted to express the same materials on the inside and out, So they created black steel walls, the expressed steel and the exposed concrete walls and ceiling. The monumental walls also provide the perfect backdrop for the owner’s artworks and wall sculptures.
While the ground floor includes the main living areas, there’s a second living area/study on the first floor for the two boys, which will transition to more of a study as they enter senior school. Separated by two voids, the architects included unimpeded sight lines to the kitchen below and to the formal dining area.
As entertaining is high on the owners’ list, Maddison Architects included two large terraces to the north, leading from the living areas. Protected from the northern sun by means of the first floor cantilever, these outdoor terraces function as an outdoor room for most parts of the year. A studio attached to one of these terraces has been earmarked as a further stage of the home’s development.
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2. http://frank.net.au/portfolio/guildford-rd-surrey-hills/
3. http://www.maddisonarchitects.com.au/