A-Z House sits in a housing estate built in the sixties. It was to be rebuilt as a multigenerational home for our client’s young family and his ageing parents. During our first meeting, the client recalled to us a highly endearing moment in his childhood - quality father-and-son bonding at his childhood home, drinking tea on the verandah on quiet evenings.

Since hearing that story, we were inspired to create pockets of spaces where small but significant moments like these could take place. The changing volumes of the pockets of spaces coupled with carefully-placed glazing that facilitates visual connections to and from spaces over several levels, enable one to realise one’s own body in relation to the scale of each space. This was important for us, as we strive always come back to the human scale, to how one’s body understands and fits within a space, within a home.