Timber Box Barrow House by Andrew Maynard Architects
This house designed look like as an arrangement of timber boxes, rotated and subjected independently to varying amounts of extruding and manipulating forces. These action result in a variety of united shapes, conservative planar nature of a ‘box’, create an interior of differing volumes and organizations, providing an interesting double story addition to this weatherboard house.
The form challenges the behavior of timber construction, which lightweight and fragile, added wall thickness to different areas results in a structure with a fluctuating sense of mass. Window arrangements and framing techniques adds the dynamic and varying nature of these environments. The external timber cladding wraps itself inside and fuses the extension into the original house, where the old living space now is occupied as a bathroom.
The strategic placement of a separate living space at the western end of the site, reflects the focus of the site internally, frames the large open area & increases privacy levels. Definition between indoor and outdoor is blurred by the transparent divisions of bifold doors and large windows; Visual interaction is constant. This central outdoor spaces becomes part of the living circulation space as the diurnal patterns of the occupants see them traverse the yard to the rear living quarters.
Location : Melbourne, Australia
Architect : Andrew Maynard Architects
