멜버른 교외에 위치한 하우스는 호주의 전형적인 정원으로 둘러 쌓인 환경과는 사뭇 다른 도시환경에 위치합니다. 단일층이었던 웨어하우스 그리고 90년대 증축공사를 통해 운영되었던 병원시설은 이제 수직으로 긴창이 인상적인 입면과 거주자의 현대적인 거주환경을 제공하는 하우스로 재 탄생합니다. 지역건축가, ***의 적극적인 공간구성은 3개의 침실을 가진 오픈-플랜 주방과 식당, 거실 그리고 스터디룸, 와인창고, 차고형 워크샵을 완성합니다.
기존 공간, 벽으로 부터 확장된 3개층은 풍부한 자연채광과 오픈-플랜을 구현하는 공용부와 전면과 후면, 3층 전체를 사용하는 마스터 침실로 구분, 적용됩니다. 저층부, 오픈공간에는 작은 실내정원을 설치, 외부에 얻을 수 없는 자연을 삽입합니다.
reviewed by SJ,오사
A full-height window and a projecting seating nook interrupt the facade of this suburban Melbourne house created by local studio Pleysier Perkins in a former warehouse.
The property is located in a vibrant bohemian neighbourhood in the heart of the Australian city's Northcote suburb.
The single-storey warehouse building had been converted into a featureless two-storey medical centre in the 1990s and Pleysier Perkins was asked to oversee its transformation into a residence that responds to its urban context.
The brief called for a three-bedroom house with an open-plan kitchen, dining and living area, as well as a study, wine cellar and garage workshop, to be constructed within the envelope of the original building.
"The existing building offered nothing in the way of character or heritage, but it did offer interesting spatial opportunities – the potential for some large heights, volumes and spaces, quite unique in a residential building," Pleysier Perkins director Simon Perkins told Dezeen.
Photography is by Brendan Finn.
"It's not a house surrounded by a garden, as is typical in Australia, but a series of living spaces on different levels surrounded by two-storey walls built on the boundary, with the opportunity to add a third level set back from the front and rear boundaries."
The architects began the renovation by stripping the structure back to the original single-storey masonry walls, which abutted neighbouring buildings on two sides and were bound on the other two by a street and a narrower side passage.
A garage occupying the rear half of the ground floor was retained as part of the new programme, along with some structural steel beams that helped reduce costs.
Existing walls were extended and rendered to create a homogenous two-storey volume interrupted by openings. These are carefully positioned to allow natural light to enter the interior and provide views out while maintaining privacy.
A third-storey addition set back from the front and rear facades houses the master bedroom suite.
An entrance at the edge of the building leads directly from the street into a seven-metre-high lobby featuring a full-height, north-facing window that fills the interior with daylight.
This concrete-floored space adjoins a timber-decked play area lined on one side by a small artificial lawn, and on the other by an indoor pebble garden containing a Japanese maple tree.
The home's interior spaces are arranged around an oak-clad box containing a wine store and bathroom at the ground-floor level, with a mezzanine lounge on top overlooking the reception below.
The perforated wooden panels improve acoustics and provide a warm, natural contrast to the predominantly white-walled interior.
"The design concept is a box within a box, so we clad the internal box in oak to give it a rarefied appearance, like a jewellery box," explained Perkins.
"Spaces and rooms exist in, on or adjacent to the internal jewellery box. Thereby a series of unique and contrasting spaces are positioned according to their use."
The ground floor also contains two bedrooms and a connection with the garage workshop. A wooden staircase with a slender profile situated in the void next to the timber box ascends to the first-floor lounge.
The lounge adjoins a kitchen and dining space that opens onto a decked terrace at the rear of the building. A study overlooking the entry void also contains a window seat that projects outwards from the north-facing elevation.
Some of the openings in the facade incorporate operable windows, which are screened by perforated metal panels that ensure they are secure while allowing light and air to pass through.
from dezeen