住宅 丨澳大利亚丨MRTN Architects

Architects:MRTN Architects

Area:280m²

Year:2024

Photographs:Derek Swalwell

Category:Houses

Builder:Resicon Master Builders

City:Northcote

Country:Australia

Text description provided by the architects. Home Pavilion celebrates the key social spaces of the family home: the kitchen, dining, and living spaces by locating them within a clearly legible pavilion building that holds the corner of its suburban site.

The design evolved out of our client's childhood experiences growing up in an Eichler home in San Francisco.  Eichler's homes, now regarded as part of the 'California Modern' movement, typically featured glass walls, post-and-beam construction, and open floor plans.

The pavilion grounds the project with all other elements of the home, visually or physically connecting to it. The two double-storey elements bookend the extent of the house, reducing visual bulk on the corner, which is more in keeping to the residential character of the area but atypical of other recent corner developments.

Responding to the corner block, a series of distinct pavilions was proposed, each defined through a series of structural elements. These elements arrange the plan, taking the form of masonry blade walls that support oversized concrete beams that, in turn, support a series of timber rafters.  The considered post and lintel expression reference Eichler, while providing the structure of the spaces, the materiality of the pavilion, and defining the social spaces of the home.

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