What a sensational look. This two-storey modern house design is located in Vaucluse, Sydney. It backs onto Parsley Bay Reserve, a leafy park at the harbour’s edge treasured as a hidden gem by locals. The site is a rectangular block orientated along a north/south axis, falling from south to north.
This new home is designed with a bold and architecturally strong, yet also comfortable and inviting. The house should have spaces suited to entertaining, offering easy flow from inside to out. Additionally the clients wanted to retain a traditional garden, with a sizeable lawn and flowerbeds alongside a 10m pool and spa.
Above all, the house was to be uniquely tailored to fit their needs and the further details of their brief.
The house adopts a solid masonry form. Floor and roof slabs extend to the perimeter of the building, capping the cube like forms. Fenestration is expressed as full height voids in walls, as bespoke steel framed windows span vertically between the expressed concrete slabs. Cool concrete floors and benchtops sit alongside teak cabinetry and custom-made bronze ironmongery.
Every detail in the house was painstakingly resolved, from bronze integrated door handles, screens and handrails, to fine steel angle door stops and window frames. No junction of elements was left to chance, with careful consideration given to how all such elements would meet or juxtapose.
Visit the website of Tobias Partners Architects – here.
