Round windows in black and red are plugged into the facade of this wood-clad house by Australian firm Judd Lysenko Marshall Architects that sits on the outskirts of Melbourne.
The three-storey residence, called Ormond Esplanade, is split across four levels with a half-level rise between the second and third floor.
The main stairwell has open risers and ascends through a void.
The timber-clad house sits on a sloping site with a low-level garden to the rear, which can be accessed via an external stair.
Here's some more from the architects
Ormond Esplanade
No, they (the client) said. Make it Saint Kilda.
And, make it light. Make it bright. Make it tight. Add all of the green stuff too, please. And, we want it beachy. Maybe like a boat? And it better be fun. Serious fun.
Hmn. How about spotted gum? Or even better, spotty gum.
Skin
A tight wrapped skin creates a shell for this vertical house. Like real skin, it’s blemished and rough. Something to protect the delicate inside, at once tough and resilient, but still stretchy, smooth, supple and tactile.
Baroque
Though seemingly abstract, this house is multilayered, replete with veiled secrets, like a dreaming or wandering left for the occupant to decode – a chain of intimate revelations.
Vertical Living
A tight block turns the circulation on its head. A three level stair rises behind the circular windows providing a connection between the four distinct zones.
The screen-printed hoop pine balustrade links the levels through a carefully constructed narrative of image and colour.
Zones for Living
A garden room lands the ground floor. A grand stair is mirrored inside and out and connects the lofty living to both the beach and the backyard.
The kid’s bedrooms are fun, exciting and colourful and the parent’s garret is necessarily moody, sexy and private.
Lean and Green
The void also provides passive stack ventilation, grounded in a masonry level and a permeable lid. Glazing is optimised and daylight carefully controlled.
A 2.0kw solar system provides energy. Rainwater flushes and washes while grey water keeps the grass green.
This is sensory architecture that cannot be engaged in a single eyeful.
A home of full of wonder and anticipation for a young family.
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Not so sure about the functionality, form or great taste…
But frankly who cares?! This is pure architectural fun.
And that's what matters at the end. 'Cause life must be fun.
Let's have fun, architects. It is much more creative…
Great Work with the colors and GUNG-HO attitude to design..love it
This is not "funny" at all. If an architecture do things by the fun side, he has a lot to learn. That's not fun, that's just ugly.
boo miseryguts, what's not fun about it then? explain your points
bright colours, irreverent details, informal proportions – all seems fun to me
Connect Four!
I like it.
Sou funny:))
I like it, who wants to see the same japanese white little houses again and again.
(Let’s not even talk about the brick glad NEW structures of OLD britain…)
Yes Totally agree! Its very difficult to deal with colors and different materials and these guys have nailed it. I am too tired of seeing 100 permutations of the same white Japanese house. House are meant for living not just looking great in photoshoots.
" After 1980, you never heard reference to space again. Surface, the most convincing evidence of the descent into materialism, became the focus of design. Space disappeared. " Arthur Erickson.
The use of space in design has returned to Ormond Esplanade.