Founding Directors (from left to right): John Denton, Barrie Marshall, Bill Corker

Stephen Quinlan (London), Budiman Hendropurnomo (Jakarta), Adrian FitzGerald (Melbourne)

Projects

Cape Schanck Residence – Victoria, Australia

A coastal retreat located south of Melbourne, comprising the main house and studio pavilion.

The principal two storey house is located to enjoy expansive ocean views from the top of a very steep site in the middle of a golf course.  The orthogonal black form is very clear and simple, but there is something odd to it.  The box tube is twisted in section, the cladding raked, the lower windows cranked and the chimney emerging from the wall is on the diagonal.  The house looks nothing like a house, but rather an object flying in from space and rotating along its long axis as it is about to land.  The house is a dynamic enigma in the windswept setting.

The studio is a further extrusion of the tube, positioned directly opposite the rear entrance of the earlier building, across the north-facing concrete paved courtyard.  A long concrete bench, set at an oblique angle, separates the two.

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