Project: Harold St Resident ft. Nubrik Classic230
The Harold Street residence sits at a minor intersection. Its heritage neighbours on the other corners of the intersection are built to their street boundaries.This was the starting point for the Jackson Clements Burrows’ design team led by Graham Burrows.
Like many other heritage properties in Middle Park, the three established houses on the intersection are red brick.This was a natural choice for the new house, creating a robust street edge and relating to the context.“The north side was more about creating a sensitive and sculpted interface for the garden,”Topliss adds.
In many ways this house is about light.The living area, with its impressive art collection, opens out to the garden via folding glass doors. Lighting, mostly LED fixtures and long-life fluorescents, is used sensitively throughout the home. But it is the wall on the southern boundary that is the most striking example of the creative use of light.
This wall is substantially perforated to allow the house to exude an ethereal glow after dark. It is also partly clad with an industrialtype grating finished in black, but large areas of the brickwork are perforated along this southern face, continuing briefly around the back of the building to enclose a deck.
The owners are thrilled with their new home and its striking design – described by one commentator as “edgy and clever and beautifully modern to look at” – has been recognised first with a Design Award from the City of Port Phillip and more recently a Victorian Architecture Award for new residential architecture.
Like many other heritage properties in Middle Park, the three established houses on the intersection are red brick.This was a natural choice for the new house, creating a robust street edge and relating to the context.“The north side was more about creating a sensitive and sculpted interface for the garden,”Topliss adds.
In many ways this house is about light.The living area, with its impressive art collection, opens out to the garden via folding glass doors. Lighting, mostly LED fixtures and long-life fluorescents, is used sensitively throughout the home. But it is the wall on the southern boundary that is the most striking example of the creative use of light.
This wall is substantially perforated to allow the house to exude an ethereal glow after dark. It is also partly clad with an industrialtype grating finished in black, but large areas of the brickwork are perforated along this southern face, continuing briefly around the back of the building to enclose a deck.
The owners are thrilled with their new home and its striking design – described by one commentator as “edgy and clever and beautifully modern to look at” – has been recognised first with a Design Award from the City of Port Phillip and more recently a Victorian Architecture Award for new residential architecture.
