Architects:March Studio

Area :850 m²

Year :2017

Photographs :Peter Bennetts

Lead Architects :Rodney Eggleston

Landscape :Cos design

Engineering :Costruct, Mark Pistol

Builder :CBD Contracting

Steel : Bluescope

City : Melbourne

Country : Australia

The Compound house is an adventurous project, averting style in lieu of an exploration into light and shadow, form and texture, order and chaos, the rational and the random.

The Compound deliberately exploits the pluralistic neighbourhood character of Brighton, speaking to the client’s industrial background by exploiting a collection of infrastructural moments. An embankment batter, concrete retaining walls, triangular trusses and copper ribbons commonly found in Busbars complete a language more akin to an ‘oil refinery,’ as one neighbour described it. A comparison we weren’t entirely unhappy with.