Lily Street House in Melbourne with Open Concept Space by ODR Architects and LifeSpaceJourney
Recently ODR Architects and LifeSpaceJourney have collaborated to design the house in Lily Street, Melbourne, Australia. At the beginning, the client asked for an architectural box, however, ODR Architects devised a response that shows consideration for context, history, climate, materials, urbanism and program.
Exterior House Design
Minimalist Interior Space
In the finished design, the house exterior turns its back on the context. There are no obvious windows, no articulation, no surveillance, just a foreign object in a laneway. Internally, the courtyard forms the centrepiece. The internal spaces revolve around the space, which heats and cools the space as well as providing separation in plan.
Interior Open Space Concept
Interior Stair and Mini Garden
Interior Glass Walls
The residents circulate around it, cook in it, and breathe through it; opening the doors changes the environment inside. It also serves as a reminder of the surroundings – the two conditions juxtapose each other, giving validation to both. Between the outside and inside can be engaged through transparency and blurred moments of living.
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