Park Street House | Robert Simeoni Architects

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Park Street House | Robert Simeoni Architects

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  • Completion year: 2007
  • Gross Built up Area: 65 sqm
  • Project Location: North Fitzroy
  • Country: Australia
  • Photo Credits: John Gollings, Trevor Mein
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Excerpt: Park Street House, designed by Robert Simeoni Architects, creates an intensely private residential space with an attempt to carry through external details and elements. The north facing exterior façade has been planted with creepers, which grow along expressed vertical wires, giving the house an additional layer of greenery, shading and privacy. The interior spaces of the building aim to be domestic, architecturally intense and pragmatic all at once. The house is one room wide, and the circulation space becomes an adjunct to the prescribed rooms.

Project Description

[Text as submitted by architect] Park Street House has been designed to create an intensely private residential space for a young family. The exterior of the house is informed by observations of everyday urban buildings. There is a deliberate attempt to carry through external details and elements, which continue to form part of the interior expression.

Park Street House | Robert Simeoni Architects
© John Gollings, Trevor Mein
Park Street House | Robert Simeoni Architects
© John Gollings, Trevor Mein
Park Street House | Robert Simeoni Architects
© John Gollings, Trevor Mein

The building bookends a row of nondescript townhouses and opens itself to north facing parkland views with a two-storey curtain wall and void, which is screened by 6-metre-long flowing, sheer curtains. The north facing exterior façade has been planted with creepers, which grow along expressed vertical wires, giving an additional layer of greenery, shading and privacy to the house.

Park Street House | Robert Simeoni Architects
© John Gollings, Trevor Mein
Park Street House | Robert Simeoni Architects
© John Gollings, Trevor Mein
Park Street House | Robert Simeoni Architects
© John Gollings, Trevor Mein

The interior spaces of the building aim to be domestic, architecturally intense and pragmatic all at once. The house is essentially one room wide with the circulation space becoming an adjunct to the prescribed rooms. The deliberate placement of a double-height void facing to the north allows for an expansion of interior views from the top level, whilst creating a vertical connection that helps belie the small overall floor area of the house.

Park Street House | Robert Simeoni Architects
© John Gollings, Trevor Mein
Park Street House | Robert Simeoni Architects
© John Gollings, Trevor Mein
Park Street House | Robert Simeoni Architects
© John Gollings, Trevor Mein

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