Double House

South Elevation

North St Elevation

The two inhabitants for this double house are siblings, an art collector/artist (sister) and photographer (brother). The brother's house has been extruded towards the East (victoria st ) as he is the younger sibling and is known to be more outgoing and social, and enjoys the nightlife of potts point . However, the Sister enjoys a more private lifestyle, thus her building has been extruded towards the West. The circulation involves the art collector entering either through the gallery or the garden passage. 

By walking through the gallery and shared space,  it  ignites interaction and allows the sister to maintain a strong bond with her younger brother, as well as gain daily inspiration from artworks in the gallery. The gallery has white walls and concrete flooring to create neutral backdrop for art work. The gallery has a split level ceiling height as it creates a gradual effect of opening up to the lanscape, and also creates room for tall sculptures. The gallery has stairs which lead to the sculpture garden, which also includes a water feature and benches for seating. The gallery can also connect to the shared dining area, which can be used by the art collector to entertain personal guests, thus making the gallery as private or public as the resident requires it to be. 

A lot of inspiration has been stemmed from Adolf Loos' Villa Muller and how he manipulated the continuity of spaces to create an interconnected building by his use of raumplan This also involving different ceiling heights being used for rooms with different functions. i.e. gallery having a high ceiling which in turn makes the bedroom's ceiling in House 2 lower. Spaces also have been strongly distinguished with each house having its own program but with these programs overlapping to create shared space. The roof has also been inspired by the sawtooth roof, which was created during the industrial revolution to get light into factories, which relates to the terrace houses as they were built during that period. Northern light is thus let into the building as the first roof is offset from the second.