2013 Melbourne Design Awards - Key Dates

1 May - Entries open
22 July - Rush Entries
1 August - Entries CLOSE
19 August - Judging
27 August - Finalists announced
23 September - Voting closes
23 October - Awards Night
2013 Melbourne Design Awards

Architecture - Residential - Constructed

Why Enter

Whether you are a design creator or a design commissioner you can make your mark on the Melbourne design scene by entering the Melbourne Design Awards.

Design Creator
• Gain recognition for your design achievement
• Increase awareness of your work and gain design public and peer comment
• Increased exposure to your potential customers and clients
• Bench mark your work with your peers
• Opportunity to gain national publicity and exposure

Design Commissioner
• Provides a mark of distinction for your product
• Further evidence of excellence in product development
• Bench mark your product with those of your peers
• Increased exposure of your brand / product
• Opportunity to gain national publicity and exposure

Description

This award recognises the design process and product of planning, designing and constructing form, space and ambience that reflect functional, technical, social, and aesthetic considerations. Consideration given for material selection, technology, light and shadow. The project must be constructed.

 

Current entries

Kooyong Residence

Architecture - Residential - Constructed

 

A choreographed journey of history spans old and new is this re-cycled Melbourne home. The end result follows a story of 2’pavilions’ -at the front the extensive restoration of the original grander section of the Victorian building and at the rear a new contemporary double storey addition. Both are seemingly separate yet connected via a metaphorical bridge that traverses the courtyard area -acting as a powerful interstitial (& seemingly internal) space mediating the two buildings and history.

 

Cloud House

Architecture - Residential - Constructed

 

The Cloud House is an addition and renovation to a double-fronted Edwardian-era house in Fitzroy North. McBride Charles Ryan’s work for the house is designed in three distinct parts. The original structure is retained with minimal modification, while a cloud-shaped extrusion, a dramatic extension to the living space, is added at the rear of the property. The third element, a central red kitchen ‘box’, acts as a pivot, linking these contrasting spaces.

 

Harper Lane

Architecture - Residential - Constructed

Harper Lane sits on ‘leftover’ land wrapping around a 1930s telephone exchange. The project provides 65 residential apartments and 1 commercial tenancy within 2 buildings, varying in height from 3 to 6 storeys. The repeating floor plan is an economical design that also provides a high level of internal amenity for residents with all apartments having cross ventilation and good access to natural daylight. A small café, creating activity at street level, is located next to the entry walkway to maximize opportunities for interaction. A communal garden was created along the northern boundary, beneath a row of existing established trees that maintain screening between the new apartments and the neighbouring residences. Externally black detailing and natural timber relieve a simple palette of grey and white concrete. Robust elevations are enlivened by external blinds in 2 shades of green, and climbing vines growing on the facades. A 6 star energy rating was achieved using passive solar design principles, including north facing glazing to many of the apartments, and exposed concrete floors and shared thermal mass. External shading of glazing and walls and cross-ventilation minimises reliance on air conditioning. Rainwater is harvested for toilet flushing and garden irrigation.

 

Hill House

Architecture - Residential - Constructed

The site faces north therefore relegating the backyard, the family’s primary outdoor space, to shadow throughout the year. In the 90s a two storey extension was added reducing solar access even further while creating deep dark space within the house. A family of five wished to create a long-term home, which could meet the requirements of three small children and their slow transformation into young adults over the years. Following the decision to build at the rear of the block a ubiquitous modern box was first imagined. Soon it seemed necessary to pursue the opportunity to activate this new, once shaded, now sunny facade. A seat along the new northern facade? Perhaps a series of steps like the Scalinata della Trinità dei Monti? But how does one lounge in the sun on steps? Perhaps a slope instead ... and the Hill House emerged.

 

Harold Street Residence

Architecture - Residential - Constructed

The Harold Street Residence is a new dwelling located in a Middle Park heritage overlay precinct on the north-west corner of the Neville and Harold Street intersection. The surrounding context is predominantly single storey Victorian terraces. Our response engages with the site’s heritage context through its architectural form and detailing, explores the public/private nature of the corner site, and completes the intersections ‘fourth corner’.

 

Hi-pod

Architecture - Residential - Constructed

 

This project consists of a stainless steel-clad pod inserted into the façade of an existing public housing tower in Footscray; one of the many original Housing Commission Towers built throughout inner Melbourne in the 1960s and 70s. Effectively a residential extension, albeit elevated 3 storeys from the ground, the project employs domestic construction technologies and relatively small gestures to big effect. The project constitutes a prototype for a broader strategy to regenerate accommodation within existing high rise social housing stock, improving amenity for residents and significantly improving the environmental performance of the building’s skin, and by extension that of the units within.

 

BRIGHTON STREET

Architecture - Residential - Constructed

The burdening design challenges of this unique inner-city site have yielded an innovative and surprisingly over-scaled addition to a run-down Victorian cottage.

 

Havelock Alterations

Architecture - Residential - Constructed

 

This new extension to the existing heritage dwelling frames a new courtyard between old and new, while elevating the bedroom sanctuary in amongst the tree tops of the rear park.

 

Brick House

Architecture - Residential - Constructed

The Brick House is an addition and renovation to a single fronted Edwardian house in Prahran. Craving privacy from looming neighbouring flats two new structures were conceived to cocoon a private central courtyard space between them.

 

'Living Places' Suburban Revival

Architecture - Residential - Constructed

 

‘Living Places’ public housing establishes a benchmark for environmentally and socially sustainable low-cost housing in Victoria. The culmination of an open design competition initiated by the Office of the Victorian Government Architect and the Office of Housing,’ Living Places’ involves the design of fifteen environmentally efficient, low-cost dwellings on six consolidated residential allotments in Dandenong. The project establishes a solar responsive urban framework which, in combination with efficient internal planning and the integration of ESD technologies, facilitates dwellings with energy ratings in excess of 8 stars. WSUD principles, grey water treatment and indigenous planting reduce the site’s dependence on mains water and minimise its impact on the local environment. ‘Living Places’ is spatially diverse and accommodates numerous household configurations. Private open spaces, semi-private gardens and operable fences and screens allow residents to mediate contact with neighbours, while centrally located communal outdoor spaces activate the site and create possibilities for interaction and self-expression. ‘Living Places’ demonstrates that public housing can be accommodated within established suburban environments without disrupting the neighbourhood or ostracizing the community within. Furthermore, they can be spatially rich and rewarding places to live.

 

Queensberry Street House

Architecture - Residential - Constructed

The Queensberry Street house occupies the site of a former cheese factory in the inner Melbourne suburb of North Melbourne. The building is formally ambiguous, mediating between the domestic and industrial sensibilities of the neighboring building stock whilst adopting a material aesthetic that engages with its local context. The brickwork detailing makes reference to the character of the local streetscape, however in this instance, these references are imbued with an additional architectural quality; a panel of brickwork slides proud of the east façade to create a subtle shadow and define an edge. ‘Hit and miss’ perforated brickwork compositionally activates the façade, allowing momentary glimpses into the interior through to the layered spaces within, whilst simultaneously enabling filtered views to the exterior. Fabricated from ‘off the shelf’ galvanized steel flats, the bespoke glazing system is formed into complex steel window walls that are softened by the use of dark stained timber sections to all operable doors and windows. Curtains act as spatial dividers, but also suggest the domestic sensibilities of the project, providing a sense of softness and warmth to contrast the apparent muscularity of the form and materials.

 

Dual Occupancy

Architecture - Residential - Constructed

Award for most creative Design Bayside City council Award for most sustainable design Bayside City Council Best Dual Occupancy Victoria HIA

 

Manning Road House

Architecture - Residential - Constructed

Manning Road House is situated in Melbourne’s established south eastern suburbs amongst predominantly historic red brick and tiled homes. The project is a result of a long-term friendship between client and architect and is the realisation of a shared vision, one that has evolved over the course of many journeys together. The resulting design is a manifestation of those experiences and the landscape, its forms, spaces, scale, colours, textures, light and materiality.

 

Monash University Student Housing, Clayton

Architecture - Residential - Constructed

Monash University Student Housing, Clayton, comprises two 5 storey buildings, each containing 300 student studios flanking a central, common courtyard. Fundamental to the project was the need to create a community whilst supporting the individual; therefore, the courtyard is the meeting point and entry to each building. It refers to traditional college accommodation where students interact from private spaces to the common. Shared spaces and vertical circulation are located at the centre of each building encouraging interaction. The main communal spaces are double storey volumes playing an important role in connecting all levels and defining the architectural composition. Each wing of the building has a cohort of 30 studios per level. Studios contain a kitchenette, ensuite and living/sleeping space. At 20m2 the studio module was refined to create a sense of spaciousness, incorporating extensive operable floor to ceiling windows and exposed ceilings 2.7 metres in height, with services contained at central risers. This project has achieved 5 star As Designed and As Built, Green Star ratings. It has also been identified as a new benchmark for the Federal Government for affordable housing under the National Rental Affordability Scheme (NRAS).

 

Treehouse

Architecture - Residential - Constructed

We believe in an architecture which sits gracefully with it’s surroundings and respects the environment with understated dignity. Where the most complex and beautiful solutions are often the simplest. Timelessness.

 

South Yarra Residence

Architecture - Residential - Constructed

Positioned in Melbourne's Domain precinct, the 1929 built residence meshes historic architecture with a modern, cantilevered addition. The architecture is defined by expansive planar axes, the core of which defines the home over three floors. Junctions old and new are celebrated with wide shadow recesses and textural change. A monochrome palette of cement rendered walls, gloss black timber flooring, matt black steel and polished aluminium reflect the purity of modernist inspiration. The entry gallery straddles new and old, establishing key vistas through the house. Existing openings lined with fine steel portals are framing devices for reveals, panels and blades. A graphic staircase perforates the upper floor in a continuous ribbon of black gloss timber, illuminated by shards of light, piercing the stair void as the sun tracks from East to West. Oversized openings to new spaces are flush glazed, the framing receding, enabling a view of the adjacent property textured walling to be explored. Generously proportioned spaces at first floor are planned within old and new, providing a cohesive bedroom floor. An extensive west glazed facade is shielded by a bank of electrically controlled external louvers, with the cantilevered form providing protection to a fully glazed ground floor living space.

 

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