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The brief for Tony Freeman, of Molnar Freeman Architects was to design a family house that could accommodate large-scale entertaining across multiple spaces, as well as allowing guests to stay. It was very much a collaborative project, with various parties bringing their own expertise. The owner-builder approached the job as he would a commercial building - getting the structure up and then filling it in, with a focus on quality, timeframe and services.
Inside the home, the space is open and flowing. There are no hallways or corridors: instead, rooms are defined by floor-level changes and timber-veneer joinery, with bi-fold and sliding veneer doors allowing areas to be closed off for privacy or opened up for entertaining. Ample storage space means the home always looks neat and tidy. Everything extraneous is out of sight - even the television sets recess into the joinery.
A three-storey staircase, with floating concrete treads and a 10-metre-high mesh screen-cum-balustrade, links the entire 1000-square-metre house. A glass curtain wall provides light through the rear and most excavated part of the basement, which contains a rumpus room and entertaining areas.
A further linking element is the imposing seven-metre-high wall that runs from the entrance to the upper levels, giving the art-gallery feel the owners wanted. It forms the backdrop to a massive stainless-steel mesh scrupture which appears to float weightlessly across the wall. All the first-floor bedrooms are set out around a four-sided walkway that looks down onto the entrance void and sculpture, allowing it to be seen from different aspects
Words by Jean Wright. Extracted from belle October/November 2010
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