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CASA31_4 Room House Re-invented
Perth, Australia
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CASA31_4 Room House Re-invented
Perth, Australia
Project Featured on Nov 04, 2014
Type
STATUS
Built
YEAR
2018
SIZE
1000 sqft - 3000 sqft
BUDGET
$100K - 500K
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CASA31_4 Room House reinterprets the role of memory, tradition, and social and cultural value in a rich spatial experience that is simultaneously familiar yet unfamiliar. Our architecture preserves and reinterprets the past, and history is layered but never erased as fragments of the past continually remind us that we are only another layer in the rich and unfolding history of this place.
All spaces contain elements of the past, often manifest as objects of intrigue, such as the sloping floor (the former roof), the barge scrolls on the front fence, the roof tiles creating a musical score along the boundary, the chimney as water collector, and the up-cycling of former building elements as decks, gates, architraves, and furniture.
A front deck engages with the street, reintroducing the role and value of the front garden as social setting and meeting place, which is a past tradition of the immigrant Italians and Greeks that has almost disappeared in society's obsession with privacy and security.
Over the last 3 years we have explored our 1936 Queen Anne Mount Hawthorn federation house via scraping, layering, and peeling with 4 primary spatial ideas:
1. The room to the interior.
2. The room to the garden.
3. The room to the horizon.
4. The room to the sky.
The room to the interior explores what existed with the art of construction, and knowing what to keep, what to reveal, and what to remove.
The room to the garden focuses attention to the exterior at ground level. It is purposely heavy and grounded — engaging with the earth as the section expands to the exterior with a series of folding screens layering the engagement.
A space of deep sensory delight, or an architectural palette cleanser, transitions the ground and upper level. The eyes and nose are overpowered by the burnt and waxed plywood walls as the amber light cast by nan’s 1950s sliding door shines through.
The room to the horizon filters the suburban roof tops, the screen abstracts the exterior world and the interior is one folded space formed through a play on the one-point perspective that intensifies the horizon. Openable screens create a direct view framing the horizon, releasing the interior volume. The space is cooled with an interpretation of the old 'Coolgardie Safe' in which water is dripped down the fabric cooling the outside air. The newly restored1956 Iwan Iwanoff Guthrie residence cabinet finds a new home after 15 years of storage in numerous architect’s garages. Even the roughly painted "i love linda" remains on the chimney, and a rear window frames the distant Saint Mary’s Church.
The room to the sky creates a vertical spatial experience, a halo of love poems embraces us (a former wedding installation), and at night a cross of light abstracted by polycarbonate awakens and opens up to the sky.
The design enables our children and us to grow and evolve in a sequence of spaces that encourage engagement with each other and the dwelling, and offers new ways of exploring family relationships and an understanding of space. Our house is simultaneously a memorial, playground, place of celebration, stage set, place of community interaction, and most importantly ‘home.’
Program Resolution:
The design exploits all areas of the site with an inherent flexibility for not only day-to-day use, but the long term capacity to adapt to evolving and changing requirements as the family grows and ages.
The design also reengages with the street and community, allowing our children to play in a safe environment connected to the street and house.
Spaces are specific and flexible, while offering sufficient capacity for personal interpretation and use.
Sustainable Architecture:
This project includes both a macro and micro approach to sustainability. It also extends the meaning of sustainability beyond environmental to include contextual, social, cultural, and economic concerns.
This house will be a case example for the City of Vincent, demonstrating the importance of preserving the 1935 Queen Anne Federation home with the capacity to embrace contemporary expectations of living without comprising the street context or privacy of adjoining properties. The neighboring house completes the street sequence of ‘twins’ and twins should never be separated.
The removal of material from the site was minimized. An attitude of ‘upgrading’ ensures that materials once concealed for structural purposes are now used for furniture, decks, doorframes, and architraves.
The upper and lower level spaces are protected from the low, intense summer sun with timber-framed fixed and operable screens. The upper level is cooled with a manually operated reticulation system that drip feeds water onto the fabric, and hot moving air is rapidly chilled. This strategy is Perth’s largest ‘Coolgardie Safe,’ a 19th-century low-tech refrigeration system used by the Coolgardie WA gold miners to cool edible goods. Windows are strategically located to maximize cross ventilation or for winter heat gain (north facing windows with a deep capacity for shading).
All interior spaces preserve elements of the past, and history is layered but never erased.
Low energy light fittings, recycled light fittings, low water use and storage, PV cells and solar hot water systems all form part of the sustainable equation that is the focus.
Economy is achieved through recycling, restoring, and reinterpreting building materials and historic traditions while minimizing waste.
This project represents a holistic approach to design and dwelling, where memories are preserved, the carbon footprint minimized, and the concerns of the broader community celebrated.
Context:
Folding forms developed from the existing roof achieve a reinterpretation of the surrounding streetscape and roof-scape, binding the old and new, the historic and contemporary. The street appearance remains almost untouched: a silent figure, a backdrop, while the rear is extroverted, complex, and challenging.
A front deck engages with the street, reintroducing the value of the front garden as a social setting. A mosaic tiled seat offers a place to rest for neighbors.
All exterior spaces contain elements of the past, often manifesting as objects of intrigue.
Integration of Allied Disciplines:
As architect owners we were keen to maintain an open line of discussion that enabled details to be developed and refined as the project evolved. This often involved the capacity to reuse building waste. Our structural engineer and builder eagerly entered into this arrangement, in particular the role of the builder extended beyond the traditional role.
CASA31_4th Room: Studio Conversion
completed march 2018
The design of CASA31_4 Room House evolved over the period of 2009 until 2013. By 2014 our family had grown
to include our daughter (Alila) and son (Cian) and additional activities of screen printing and homeware design and development.
Flexibility was a core idea embedded in the original design, flexibility to develop as the family needs and desires grow and change. The re-design of the 4th room continues the theme of flexibility through a multi-purpose space that accommodates daily activities for kids play and discovery, adults professional design and exploration including screen-printing and workshops and a place for guests to comfortably live for extended periods of time with autonomy.
A fundamental basis of the studio conversion involved engaging with the underutilised rear laneway, an additional shared space that contrasts with the street by a layer of secrecy and privacy, a semi-hidden space enjoyed by only a few.
The original design of CASA31_4th Room addressed the shared space idea, as per our front wall that encourages the public to sit and rest, the rear space was purposely finished in a matching natural grey render, a neutral colour that does not identify with the ownership of the house. A micro garden propagates the laneway that with time, will stretch along a tensile cable further populating the laneway space.
Just as CASA31 addresses the street with minimal intervention and a tease of what lies beyond, the studio conversion re-defines the occupancy of the laneway with an engaging and respectful intervention, a demonstration project for the local authority to celebrate. Our house has received over 3000 visitors since completion in 2013, many were sent by the local authority eager to demonstrate the preservation of the streetscape with contrasting two story rear addition. Sporting activities, food trucks supporting birthday parties and bands have since populated and activated the laneway. It has evolved in to a shared space encouraging interaction and use by and with neighbours. CASA31_4 room house is now a dual fronted residence.
Originally named ‘the room to the sky” the space is now named ‘the room to the sky and laneway’, a place that simultaneously engages with the wonder of the sky and freedom of the laneway…a personal cabinet of curiosities, a ‘wunderkammer’ that is hand crafted and hand made from recycled, left-over and unwanted material, a space that will continue to evolve with time.
Photography: Peter Bennetts
Caroline Di Costa Architect and iredale pedersen hook architects
All spaces contain elements of the past, often manifest as objects of intrigue, such as the sloping floor (the former roof), the barge scrolls on the front fence, the roof tiles creating a musical score along the boundary, the chimney as water collector, and the up-cycling of former building elements as decks, gates, architraves, and furniture.
A front deck engages with the street, reintroducing the role and value of the front garden as social setting and meeting place, which is a past tradition of the immigrant Italians and Greeks that has almost disappeared in society's obsession with privacy and security.
Over the last 3 years we have explored our 1936 Queen Anne Mount Hawthorn federation house via scraping, layering, and peeling with 4 primary spatial ideas:
1. The room to the interior.
2. The room to the garden.
3. The room to the horizon.
4. The room to the sky.
The room to the interior explores what existed with the art of construction, and knowing what to keep, what to reveal, and what to remove.
The room to the garden focuses attention to the exterior at ground level. It is purposely heavy and grounded — engaging with the earth as the section expands to the exterior with a series of folding screens layering the engagement.
A space of deep sensory delight, or an architectural palette cleanser, transitions the ground and upper level. The eyes and nose are overpowered by the burnt and waxed plywood walls as the amber light cast by nan’s 1950s sliding door shines through.
The room to the horizon filters the suburban roof tops, the screen abstracts the exterior world and the interior is one folded space formed through a play on the one-point perspective that intensifies the horizon. Openable screens create a direct view framing the horizon, releasing the interior volume. The space is cooled with an interpretation of the old 'Coolgardie Safe' in which water is dripped down the fabric cooling the outside air. The newly restored1956 Iwan Iwanoff Guthrie residence cabinet finds a new home after 15 years of storage in numerous architect’s garages. Even the roughly painted "i love linda" remains on the chimney, and a rear window frames the distant Saint Mary’s Church.
The room to the sky creates a vertical spatial experience, a halo of love poems embraces us (a former wedding installation), and at night a cross of light abstracted by polycarbonate awakens and opens up to the sky.
The design enables our children and us to grow and evolve in a sequence of spaces that encourage engagement with each other and the dwelling, and offers new ways of exploring family relationships and an understanding of space. Our house is simultaneously a memorial, playground, place of celebration, stage set, place of community interaction, and most importantly ‘home.’
Program Resolution:
The design exploits all areas of the site with an inherent flexibility for not only day-to-day use, but the long term capacity to adapt to evolving and changing requirements as the family grows and ages.
The design also reengages with the street and community, allowing our children to play in a safe environment connected to the street and house.
Spaces are specific and flexible, while offering sufficient capacity for personal interpretation and use.
Sustainable Architecture:
This project includes both a macro and micro approach to sustainability. It also extends the meaning of sustainability beyond environmental to include contextual, social, cultural, and economic concerns.
This house will be a case example for the City of Vincent, demonstrating the importance of preserving the 1935 Queen Anne Federation home with the capacity to embrace contemporary expectations of living without comprising the street context or privacy of adjoining properties. The neighboring house completes the street sequence of ‘twins’ and twins should never be separated.
The removal of material from the site was minimized. An attitude of ‘upgrading’ ensures that materials once concealed for structural purposes are now used for furniture, decks, doorframes, and architraves.
The upper and lower level spaces are protected from the low, intense summer sun with timber-framed fixed and operable screens. The upper level is cooled with a manually operated reticulation system that drip feeds water onto the fabric, and hot moving air is rapidly chilled. This strategy is Perth’s largest ‘Coolgardie Safe,’ a 19th-century low-tech refrigeration system used by the Coolgardie WA gold miners to cool edible goods. Windows are strategically located to maximize cross ventilation or for winter heat gain (north facing windows with a deep capacity for shading).
All interior spaces preserve elements of the past, and history is layered but never erased.
Low energy light fittings, recycled light fittings, low water use and storage, PV cells and solar hot water systems all form part of the sustainable equation that is the focus.
Economy is achieved through recycling, restoring, and reinterpreting building materials and historic traditions while minimizing waste.
This project represents a holistic approach to design and dwelling, where memories are preserved, the carbon footprint minimized, and the concerns of the broader community celebrated.
Context:
Folding forms developed from the existing roof achieve a reinterpretation of the surrounding streetscape and roof-scape, binding the old and new, the historic and contemporary. The street appearance remains almost untouched: a silent figure, a backdrop, while the rear is extroverted, complex, and challenging.
A front deck engages with the street, reintroducing the value of the front garden as a social setting. A mosaic tiled seat offers a place to rest for neighbors.
All exterior spaces contain elements of the past, often manifesting as objects of intrigue.
Integration of Allied Disciplines:
As architect owners we were keen to maintain an open line of discussion that enabled details to be developed and refined as the project evolved. This often involved the capacity to reuse building waste. Our structural engineer and builder eagerly entered into this arrangement, in particular the role of the builder extended beyond the traditional role.
CASA31_4th Room: Studio Conversion
completed march 2018
The design of CASA31_4 Room House evolved over the period of 2009 until 2013. By 2014 our family had grown
to include our daughter (Alila) and son (Cian) and additional activities of screen printing and homeware design and development.
Flexibility was a core idea embedded in the original design, flexibility to develop as the family needs and desires grow and change. The re-design of the 4th room continues the theme of flexibility through a multi-purpose space that accommodates daily activities for kids play and discovery, adults professional design and exploration including screen-printing and workshops and a place for guests to comfortably live for extended periods of time with autonomy.
A fundamental basis of the studio conversion involved engaging with the underutilised rear laneway, an additional shared space that contrasts with the street by a layer of secrecy and privacy, a semi-hidden space enjoyed by only a few.
The original design of CASA31_4th Room addressed the shared space idea, as per our front wall that encourages the public to sit and rest, the rear space was purposely finished in a matching natural grey render, a neutral colour that does not identify with the ownership of the house. A micro garden propagates the laneway that with time, will stretch along a tensile cable further populating the laneway space.
Just as CASA31 addresses the street with minimal intervention and a tease of what lies beyond, the studio conversion re-defines the occupancy of the laneway with an engaging and respectful intervention, a demonstration project for the local authority to celebrate. Our house has received over 3000 visitors since completion in 2013, many were sent by the local authority eager to demonstrate the preservation of the streetscape with contrasting two story rear addition. Sporting activities, food trucks supporting birthday parties and bands have since populated and activated the laneway. It has evolved in to a shared space encouraging interaction and use by and with neighbours. CASA31_4 room house is now a dual fronted residence.
Originally named ‘the room to the sky” the space is now named ‘the room to the sky and laneway’, a place that simultaneously engages with the wonder of the sky and freedom of the laneway…a personal cabinet of curiosities, a ‘wunderkammer’ that is hand crafted and hand made from recycled, left-over and unwanted material, a space that will continue to evolve with time.
Photography: Peter Bennetts
Caroline Di Costa Architect and iredale pedersen hook architects
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