The Evans Houses comprises three dwellings in leafy Chadstone, in Melbourne’s inner east. They negotiate a complex planning environment to deliver a modular, structurally efficient model for inner-suburban living with two bedrooms (each with direct bathroom access) to the top floor and generous, well lit living spaces to the ground floor.
The dramatic fall of the site is reflected in the building’s cladding which takes on a sedimentary or “layered” appearance. Comprising of four brick types and four matched profiled steel tray cladding types, the drama of the building is further reinforced by the cantilevering upper volume which reflects the local domestic vernacular in its “sheared off” gable and hip roof form.
The project will incorporate 10 generous apartments ranging from one bedroom through to the generous three bedroom top floor penthouse. This floor is set in from the boundary providing for views across Footscray towards Melbourne’s CBD.
The cantilevering form meets overlooking and overshadowing requirements by pushing the bulk of the building into the centre of the site, and provides identity and visual interest from the street. Generous private open spaces comprising integrated decking complete the flexible and liveable development.
ARCHITECTS
Phat Nguyen & Edmund Carter
CATEGORY
Houses
YEAR
Melbourne, 2012-2014
