Hip & Gable House / Architecture Architecture
Once was a time when a roof was a roof. Mostly it just sat up there to keep the rain off, but more importantly, it looked like a roof. A roof would hold itself in such a way, with its jaunty gables, casual hips and firm ridges, to let the world know that this house is a house. A noble task indeed. Yet, for the most part, a roof would do precious little to enliven the warren of rooms below.
© Peter Bennetts
Architects: Architecture Architecture
Location: Kew East, Australia
Architects In Charge: Nick James, Michael Roper
Area: 248.0 m2
Project Year: 2015
Photographs: Peter Bennetts
Builder: Grenville Architectural Construction
Engineers: Meyer Consulting
© Peter Bennetts
From the architect. Once was a time when a roof was a roof. Mostly it just sat up there to keep the rain off, but more importantly, it looked like a roof. A roof would hold itself in such a way, with its jaunty gables, casual hips and firm ridges, to let the world know that this house is a house. A noble task indeed. Yet, for the most part, a roof would do precious little to enliven the warren of rooms below.
© Peter Bennetts
With Hip & Gable, Architecture Architecture pays homage to a dignified, long-serving Californian Bungalow, while enticing it to say a little more and to do a little more too. We began by studying its ways: it?s darkened plinth, bricked chimney stacks, outlined ...
© Peter Bennetts
Architects: Architecture Architecture
Location: Kew East, Australia
Architects In Charge: Nick James, Michael Roper
Area: 248.0 m2
Project Year: 2015
Photographs: Peter Bennetts
Builder: Grenville Architectural Construction
Engineers: Meyer Consulting
© Peter Bennetts
From the architect. Once was a time when a roof was a roof. Mostly it just sat up there to keep the rain off, but more importantly, it looked like a roof. A roof would hold itself in such a way, with its jaunty gables, casual hips and firm ridges, to let the world know that this house is a house. A noble task indeed. Yet, for the most part, a roof would do precious little to enliven the warren of rooms below.
© Peter Bennetts
With Hip & Gable, Architecture Architecture pays homage to a dignified, long-serving Californian Bungalow, while enticing it to say a little more and to do a little more too. We began by studying its ways: it?s darkened plinth, bricked chimney stacks, outlined ...
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