Stumpy Gully Home / markowitzdesign + Stavrias Structure
- Space:
223 m²
Yr:
2021
Producers: J.D Lee Furnishings, Marz Designs, Ross Gardam, Ross Thompson, Sabu Studio, Tide
Idea Overview – This household home, positioned within the coastal hamlet of Balnarring on Victoria’s Mornington Peninsula, is a thought of strategy designed to nestle sensitively into its village context—a direct riposte to the contextless and homogenous new developments pushed by tree-change inhabitants shifts in regional Victoria. Stumpy Gully Home suggests a extra delicate technique to interact with a web site that’s thoughtful of photo voltaic orientation, avenue frontage, and architectural kind.
Whereas newer homes on the street are sited full width with a minimal setback, Stumpy Gully Home proposes an strategy extra in line with older improvement patterns in Balnarring, providing a bushy frontage to the road. As a substitute of neighboring developments’ incessant double storage avenue frontage, a linear plan opens the complete home to the northern side alongside the aspect boundary relatively than the western “again” yard. This linear landscaped yard, that includes landscapes by Jo Ferguson, runs the complete size of the home. As a substitute of the large Aussie yard, it’s the large Aussie aspect yard.
The purchasers, a younger rising household, had been searching for a household house that will evolve to accommodate their household because it expanded, aged, and matured. They needed to have the ability to supervise younger kids whereas accommodating and permitting privateness separation as the kids grew up and wanted their very own area. The linear plan achieves this by linking a succession of dwelling areas that move seamlessly into the northern out of doors panorama. These areas are punctuated by perpendicular timber-lined partitions, which visually slip by way of the exterior northern glazed wall to create a sequence of inner and exterior privateness baffles. These baffles enclose, demarcate, and display screen views as you proceed alongside the linear plan to outline completely different useful areas (entrance backyard/yard; fundamental bed room/dwelling space/children space/service space). This repeated architectural system creates variously related areas, separated or in a state of liminal ambiguity. Internally, an enfilade of huge sliding doorways permits the linear plan to be utterly opened up, permitting sight & circulation from one finish of the residence to the opposite, or alternatively to be closed and separated as required.
Structure – The entry has been positioned on the midpoint relatively than the everyday “entrance door” to ship you centrally to the dwelling area, eschewing lengthy corridors and maximizing circulation effectivity. Company are guided to this setback entry level by way of a rhythmic portico of structural timber entry posts that help the open carport. The entry procession results in an arrival area that appears out by way of a big glazed window onto the southern courtyard, drawing you thru to the central dwelling area. This entrance area creates a thermal airlock and privateness separation from southern utility areas – Mudroom/Laundry and residential workplace.
The dwelling area, central to the home, is totally open by way of glazing to the north – giant stacking timber doorways permit this area to be utterly opened in hotter months. A quiet, cool courtyard is positioned south of the kitchen and supplies a respite area in summer time, with a {custom} metal plate breakfast bar accessed by way of a servery window from the kitchen. This southern court docket permits for the cross-ventilation of the big dwelling areas. A hall main to a few kids’s bedrooms has been widened to create a rumpus space
with direct entry to the north gentle and the landscaped space, with {custom} joinery cleverly activating this area to create a TV and show space with a cork wall for photos and a linear daybed & desk to the north aspect, with roll-away toy packing containers. On the alternative japanese finish of the home, the guardian’s bed room seems out onto a personal backyard demarcated by baffle partitions, permitting for respite from the noise of rising kids. The ensuite shares This personal backyard view, that includes a Japanese onsen-style timber bathtub.
Architectural Type – A single fall skillion roof with uncovered rafters is a nod to the basic Australian mid-century fibro seashore shack endemic to surfside communities within the space. It permits the home to open to the north solar whereas minimizing glazing and ceiling peak to the southern aspect. This detailed architectural strategy has been drawn from Markowitz’s expertise as a furnishings maker and architect. The home has a strict horizontal and vertical grid alignment, which dictates the format and rhythm and is picked up and mirrored by completely different architectural components all through the home. Ross Bakker, the builder and long-term collaborator with Markowitz exclaimed throughout building, “You’ve designed a home like a chunk of furnishings!”. This rigor was difficult, with expressed beams, uncovered structural columns, and rafters forming a legible structural logic that have to be rigorously thought of all through the constructing. It may solely have been achieved by Bakker, whose craftsman-like strategy to the constructing allowed for exact execution of refined particulars that run by way of the home. This expressed structural language and rhythm is legible alongside the size of the home and defines its kind.
A battened timber pergola defines and shades the important thing out of doors entertaining area and diffuses the sturdy summer time solar from giant north-facing home windows. Excessive-level clerestory glazing permits the entry of the winter solar to warmth the thermal mass of the concrete slab in winter whereas being shaded by the overhanging eave in the summertime. The structural language carrying the roof is expressed on the low aspect of the skillion roof by an expressed structural Vee gutter, which extends past the home as a spitter element, recalling midcentury precedents equivalent to Richard Neutra.
Materiality & interiors – Exterior cedar cladding is introduced into the inside to outline the move of the baffle partitions from the skin to the within and create the connection and move from the outside to the inside. Smooth eucalypt greens and heat neutrals outline key dwelling areas. A constant datum line at 2.4m excessive runs by way of the entire undertaking and is expressed through a {custom} image rail (machined by Markowitz in his workshop for the undertaking), which divides decrease coloured areas from increased ceiling tones and is designed to precise the autumn of the skillion roof internally. Darkish stained Victorian Blackbutt contrasts towards the lighter paint tones to outline the structural hardwoods internally, drawing reference to Japanese and Arts & Crafts references, as does the usage of pebbledash render on the outside. Heat-toned Victorian Blackwood has been utilized in key areas all through the undertaking, from kitchen cabinetry to custom-made furnishings, supported and contrasted by lighter recycled Victorian Blackbutt timber. The inside shade palette of greens and heat whites was designed to enrich the nice and cozy timber tones. At instances, it’s playful, with pops of shade and earthy terrazzo tiles enlivening the household rest room, and at instances subdued, with whites, dwelling brass, and earthy greys within the onsen-inspired ensuite.
Markowitz is a educated high-quality furnishings maker in addition to an architect, and his interdisciplinary studio prides itself on the high-quality consideration of timber detailing, joinery, and furnishings as an integral a part of the design idea. Numerous Markowitz’s items have been custom-made for this undertaking in Victorian Blackwood to match the joinery, together with his Flea Chairs, Fred Desk, and his Aircraft Mattress (first designed for Peter Stutchbury’s Cabbage Tree Home) with a headboard and bedside desk specifically designed for this undertaking. Different particulars manufactured inside Markowitz’s workshop embrace;
- A {custom} butcher’s block island bench constituted of stable Blackwood (over 1000 little Blackwood finish grain blocks had been glued collectively for it!) with expressed contrasting Blackbutt legs, that are integrally related to the benchtop to develop into a part of the chopping floor
- Customized hand-carved 2.4m excessive door handles
- Smaller objects all through the home, equivalent to {custom} image rails.
This undertaking was realized with help from the staff at Stavrias Structure, who offered design enter and documentation help all through the undertaking, and is the second undertaking efficiently delivered within the productive collaboration between these two practices (and outdated college associates!).