This modern home design the Trojan House located at Melbourne, Australia, is very astounding as the whole materials from the first floor, main pool, and second floor are fully wooden which exactly resembling and equal to the name living up for it “The Trojan” House.
The notion of the Trojan house is reflected in the idea of an enveloping skin, a built form which contains the unexpected; where windows are disguised with shutters, and where the internal program is unknown. Internally this program is extrapolated to fit the container with kids bedrooms and a bathroom upstairs and living spaces downstairs. Again an unexpected gesture, when children are not isolated in bedrooms but made to feel part of the greater internal space. A communication void that doubles as a thermal chimney allows for conversation between upstairs and the living spaces below. Visual connections can be made between the levels via the circular windows scattered along the corridor, bathroom and one of the upstairs bedrooms.
The entire house is made from seamless timber skin which creates such awing opening. This modern home design has a thermal chimney and breezeway corridor allowing passive cooling in the extremely hot months which sometimes the extreme weather can cause several bush fires throughout the state. A rain screen found at this house to provide extra shade from the hot summer sun, and also insulates the inside in the winter. Designed by Architects Firm Jackson Clements Burrows Pty. Ltd
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