Deepdene House
Deepdene House
Traditional Land Owners: Wurundjeri People
Builder: BuildingMakers
Landscape: Amanda Oliver Gardens
Photography: Derek Swalwell
Awards:
2017 Think Brick Awards: Finalist - Robin Dods Roof Tile Excellence Award
2016 National Architecture Awards: Residential Architecture - Houses (New)
2016 Victorian Architecture Awards: Harold Desbrowe-Annear Award for Residential Architecture (New)
Media:
Belle Australia - June/July 2017
Dezeen - 'Kennedy Nolan completes Arts and Crafts-inspired home in Melbourne', May 2017
Yellow Trace - 'Deepdene House by Kennedy Nolan', May 2017
Architecture & Design - 'Arts, crafts and pyramids: Kennedy Nolan’s Deepdene House is a treasure trove of decorative forms', June 2017
Kennedy Nolan was commisoned to design a new house to comfortably accommodate a family of seven in a highly sustainable building. The house was carefully designed to respond to the Edwardian character of its suburban street that the neighbours and owners highly valued. Our investigations revealed that a salient characteristic of the Edwardian garden suburb was roofs and chimneys emerging from lush tree canopies.
In finding a workable model we looked to the Arts and Crafts movement and its proto-modernist philosophies as a way to satisfy our brief requirements and our own compulsion to modernity.
There is whimsy, joy and beauty in this house: the formally expressive chimneys with their hand made pots, the fragrant cedar lined pyramid of the main living area, the heft and shadow of the brick and concrete rear pavilion, the intense colour and texture of the interior surfaces – all contribute to a house which is so much more than the sum of its parts.
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