Australian-based firm Kavellaris Urban Design were given a challenge to design a house on a vacant lot in between of Victorian terrace houses and an Edwardian weatherboard house. Small home plans were developed to cope with the limited space issues.
The architect’s strategy was to critique and respond to their ongoing research into the Terrace typology. The built form is essentially an urban infill within a 5.5×14.4m envelope. The perforated house is a response to establish an alternative language to the accepted notion of the cultural attitude towards critical questions of identity and heritage.
The use of operable walls, doors, curtains and glass walls enables the occupants to change the experience and environment. This architectural manipulation of space blurred the boundaries between inside and outside, the public and private realm. The manipulated spaces overlapped and borrowed the amenity and context of it’s surrounding environment. Via
