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Smokey Town by Judd Lysenko Marshall Architects
Judd Lysenko Marshall Architects of Melbourne have completed a Corten steel-clad house in Smokey Town, Australia.
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A series of staggered brise-soleils protect the interior of the single-storey home from exposure to the sun.
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Angular terraces extend out from each shaded area.
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The following is from Judd Lysenko Marshall:
Box
When a form is so familiar, we often look past it to focus on what might be in it, or on it, or perhaps we never notice it at all.
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Sol LeWitt’s 1974 “Variations of Incomplete Open Cubes” is an exhaustive exploration of a single theme, yielding surprising and delightful results.
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Similarly, this home explores simplicity of gesture, and the minutiae of geometric adjustment to uncover diverse and serendipitous forms.
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Solid
The Smokey Town House investigates monumentality and permanence.
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Nestled on the edge of remnant scrub, the almost geological form seems at once perched and embedded in the clay stratum.
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The overscaled planar elements can be read as both monumental and ephemeral, an intense mass, yet exposed and eroded.
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Overlap
The scheme’s twin axes overlap a single pitched roof to create a set of sheathed interiors.
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From the outside, these are read as a carved mass that exploits the possibilities of the tactile material – the thick folded surface defining mass and void.
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The resultant form is at once cavernous and expansive, lean and generous, tight and maxed out.
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Twisted Axis
The interior is plainly open, but not open plan. Defined by two distinct parts severing the common from the private, the enfolding volume creates a changing spatial arrangement, through the capture and release of carefully framed views.
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Deep Shade
Crafted so as to avoid intense solar exposure, the dimension of shadow and light defines the occupation of this dwelling. This is architecture of surface and volume – a hard shell engorging a vivid and expressive belly.