Henry Street House

Award Finalists:

JEWELLERY BOX STUDIO by ADRIANO PUPILLI ARCHITECTS/

JR'S HUT - KIMO ESTATE by ANTHONY HUNT DESIGN & LUKE STANLEY ARCHITECTS

Wining Project Credits -

Photographer: Trevor Mein

Architect: Eugene Cheah Architecture

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Project description:

With a tight budget, this design is distilled to its essentials – structure is the primary expression. Sunlight is filtered and diffused by the exposed rafters, changing through the course of the day, and amplified by the varying depths of the structure. The experience of the house is of the tracks of light and shadow moving across the space.
The structure and cladding is a singular material – Australian plantation-grown Hoop Pine – acting as a unifying texture. This renewable resource is used in the form of laminated timber sheets – an efficient, sustainable, responsible and economical approach.
The LVLs were cut from wide, full slabs, and the resultant wastage which would normally be discarded was simply redistributed to create rafters of varying depths. The final form was developed parametrically to fully utilise each slab of LVL material, eliminating wastage.
The result intrinsically links the sustainable, experiential and visual realms.