Interior Design - Residential
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Description
This award recognises building interiors, with consideration given to space creation and planning, furnishings, finishes and aesthetic presentation. Consideration given to space allocation, traffic flow, building services, lighting, fixtures, flooring, colours, furnishings and surface finishes.
Current entries
Un-Waste Bookcase
Interior Design - Residential
Playful and inventive, the UnWaste bookcase transformed an inner-city apartment from a conventional ‘open plan’ blank canvas, into something else, part James Bond, part Transformer, a joinery unit with a hidden agenda. The full-wall rotating bookcase, constructed from reclaimed construction hording-board plywood oozes eclectic charm and tells stories through its multi-layered and colourful past. The plywood originally used for the temporary barriers at the edge of construction sites, was sourced and used as the principal material for the project. With it’s unique characteristics of posters, weathering, graffiti and mismatched paints incorporated into the design and harmonizing with the industrial aesthetic of the apartment, while saving nearly 1 Ton of material from landfill. A collaboration between architect Ben Milbourne (Bild Architecture), eco-designer Leyla Acaroglu (Eco Innovators) and specialist furniture designer David Waterworth (Against the Grain); the UnWaste Bookcase is an inventive response to a challenging brief to maintain the openness, light and air in a city warehouse conversion, while adding flexibility of use and a unique character.
The Grove House
Interior Design - Residential
A significant part of the renovation was to retain the original part of the Victorian house, then create a new, contemporary addition and integrate it with the old. While the contemporary area has soaring three-meter windows flooding the space with natural light, Doherty Lynch have enhanced the somber feeling in the original by use of paint color selection and keeping lighting minimal. This highlights the transition from the dark original section of the house to the lighter new addition. Doherty Lynch have created a home with an elegant but playful feel. Overall the palette of materials is in keeping with the Victorian aesthetic but then the occasional pushing of expectations like the crushed tin pendant over the dining table.
Sorrento Beach House
Interior Design - Residential
Built on a relatively small, low lying site adjacent to the Sorrento Sailing Club on the Mornington Peninsula, the brief for the home design was to accommodate a family of 4 with room for plenty of guests, family, friends and utilities for all the sailing equipment. The budget called for a ‘smart’ design solution.
T Residence
Interior Design - Residential
T Residence suggests a classic approach, applied in a contemporary manner. We reinvigorated an existing single storey Georgian home with an all new floor plan and double storey extension. Particular fixtures and features were retained and relocated for the new architecture.
1960's Residence Refurbishment
Interior Design - Residential
Refurbishment of a mid-century modernist residence and upper storey extension that required fine detailing during construction to help tie the proposed architecture and aesthetic decisions together.
King St
Interior Design - Residential
The original bathrooms were tired, dated and unpractical with the main, small in size and having an awkward structural shape. Both bathrooms did not make use of the existing space and were in need of a complete renovation. A significant part of the renovation was the change in layouts, making the main bathroom more spacious and the ensuite retaining its generous size. Pioneering Bathroom Designs and Natasha Chu Design worked in collaboration to create two new sleek, contemporary and minimal bathrooms. The main aim being perfection in design, form and function
PAKINGTON STREET
Interior Design - Residential
RACHCOFF VELLA ARCHITECTURE has opted for an unconventional response to the inner-city vernacular. The typical brief when renovating an inner-city terrace house is; keep the facade and two front rooms for heritage, knock off the back and start again. With a tight budget and timeline Rachcoff Vella Architecture (RVA) took a more innovative approach with this St Kilda pad. Working within the existing envelope, RVA transformed the dark and awkward investment property into a light-filled, spacious home.
Claremont Apartments
Interior Design - Residential
Claremont Street Apartments establish quality spaces for recreation, entertainment and living, with spectacular views across the Melbourne CBD, bays and surrounds. The design concept is a classic approach to apartment living in a quintessential Melbourne context. Clean, contemporary spaces provide a luxurious living environment. The apartments have a consistent project language maintaining design integrity throughout. Level 5 features the ultimate lifestyle space, with an outdoor deck and a winter lounge; a place for entertaining, for garden parties and martinis, where notions of a glamorous past are revived.
Park Street
Interior Design - Residential
True Interior ‘design’. made rooms were there were none, let light into areas that had laid dark for hundred years /without extending beyond building envelope. Front dining room doubles as meetingroom, period secretaire folds down / reveal desk + laptop / it’s a workstation. Formal livingroom /quiet space for evenings or afternoon naps. Rear kitchenmeals livingarea is where everyone comes together / cook around what was a Belgian school desk. Space to eat, be loud, do homework and have family time. Back entrance via ‘mudroom’ this space connected to laundry. In from garage / deposit schoolbags shoes and detritus. Front upstairs balcony like sitting in treehouse. Sit up in the canopy of the planetrees, fantastic summer place for dinner / read books / low west summer sun remarkable. Master bedroom great size / trees outside window mean light ever changing. Connects directly to ensuite with washing platform. Top attic/another favourite. oak timber stairs lead up to glazed reading area. If you are 9 you continue up the rope net to the sleeping area, great fun to arrive in a room by emerging from under desk. This room is the way architects write love letters to their children.
barry street residence
Interior Design - Residential
Barry Street Residence is a major renovation and extension to an original grand old Victorian home. The client brief was to invigorate an existing building with a new modern direction to the new construction. The interior was to be carefully considered as integral to the architecture. Our intention was a marriage of the old and new rather than a jarring juxtaposition of past and present. Most rooms at the front of the property were left largely in their original form,while the new spaces to the rear are open sculptural spaces enlivened by an abundance of natural light . A sophisticated palette was selected in a range of textures and finishes such as stucco walls surrounding the kitchen joinery, fine timber detailing adjacent to Borghini marble both in the kitchen and main bathroom. Our aim was to carefully choreograph the materials in order to give a nod/reference at the old historic aspects of the original house by using fine crafted materials such as handmade tiles, wood turned legs on the vanities, textured splashback in the kitchen and (loose interpretation) refectory style island bench. This was intended to compliment without attempt to mimic.
George North Melbourne
Interior Design - Residential
The established plane trees that create the boulevard along Flemington Road provided the inspiration for the architectural concept of George North Melbourne. The metaphor of the tree drives the structure of the building façade treatment, using the contrast of light and dark and perforated screens to emulate the dappled light created by the trees. This concept was balanced with understanding the developer’s requirement to create a targeted and marketable product and provide an elegant point of difference in the saturated apartment market place.
Beaconsfield Parade
Interior Design - Residential
Extensive interior reworking of a large, neglected, cold & poorly planed 70s, top floor apartment with magnificent 360-degree views. Very constrained site/penthouse apartment serviced by 1 small lift, it was like building a ship in a bottle. The entry & arrival were a key part of design response. existing entry was like a backdoor service area, drab dark and oppressive. A tight space, which opened into a laundry & a doglegged concrete stair, which dumped you unceremoniously in living area. We introduced a ‘box’ to frame the entry & offer an arrival experience. The base of the box formed the first step. It is necessary to walk up inside & through this box to arrive at the landing. Once we had resolved the entry issue we development the idea of the ‘box form’ throughout the apartment to create a very architectural interior landscape. The box forms conceal & reveal, wrap existing load-bearing masonry walls to break up the impact of the existing structure. They are ordering devices, which clad, screen & define area & use. They support kitchen appliances, house clothing, conceal walls & services and act to provide the unified theme, which binds the design together.
Brick House
Interior Design - Residential
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.
Kooyong Residence
Interior Design - Residential
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.
Shakin' Steven's House
Interior Design - Residential
‘Shakin Stevens’ shows there’s more than meets the eye behind the green door. The conceptual drive for the interior of this house is largely in response to a brief which crystallised into a need to be connected with ‘green’ space. Beyond the heritage front the project wanted to not necessarily increase floor area but to increase amenity. To make spaces feel bigger, more functional, to be light filled, and to visually extend &borrow from within and beyond the site. ‘Shakin Stevens’ is not only about a coloured front door but the experience of what’s beyond it.
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