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The PentHouse
The PentHouse
Melbourne, Australia
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The PentHouse
Melbourne, Australia
Type
STATUS
Built
YEAR
2026
SIZE
5000 sqft - 10,000 sqft
The PentHouse is a highly considered and meticulously designed luxury home, occupying the third and fourth levels of a four-storey apartment block.
The home's original layout was random and ad hoc; a muddle of weird ante chambers, wasted kinks and bloated vestibules. The negative effect of creating a rabbit warren is the obstruction of light and views. Internal space was dark and gloomy, with pockets of blinding glare. After years of toleration, and with the interiors looking increasingly tired and dated, the owners decided on a complete upgrade and reconfiguration.
Their brief detailed the importance of getting the everyday things right, focusing on ergonomics, functionality and ease of use. A home in which they could ‘age-in-place’.
A transformation through light, view and openness was achieved using the same logic our studio typically apply to dark terrace houses. By approaching the design not as minimalists but as a strategists, buried internal space become free and unencumbered. The key is to look, and keeping looking, tenaciously, in order to simplify, re-evaluate and re-imagine space; dissolving walls and resisting the temptation to label rooms with a singular function.
In the considered redesign of The PentHouse, rooms that didn’t require windows (storage, electrical cupboard, his and hers walk-in-robes) were grouped in the centre of the plan, housed in a structure designed to visually recede. Rooms used less frequently - the gym and guest bedroom, were opened up to maintain the flow and floor line and end-to-end sky views. Rather than creating cells with a corridor running through in between, long corridors are absorbed into the space, merging seamlessly into the walls.
Trading chaos for cohesion, a complete renovation and reconfiguration has transformed this once dark and disjointed rabbit warren into a spacious light-filled sanctuary; where expansive views meet the warmth of Gemütlichkeit.
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