Crafted organically with the environment in mind, St Kilda Residence by ADDARC is a tranquil sanctuary.
Sleek and uniform, yet warm in tone and texture, St Kilda Residence by ADDARC plays with rammed earth and light for a flexible family home. On a prominent corner allotment, the house favours quality over quantity. The clients are a couple seeking space for entertaining their extended family for weekly dinners and festivities. They emphasised the need for ageing in place, with options for future modifications while incorporating the outdoors.
Located in the bayside Melbourne suburb, on Bunurong Country, the house takes shape around a series of enclosed and framed courtyards, flooding the home with light and connection to the landscape, allowing for inward reflection and aspect. A sanctuary away from the busy street, imbued with tranquillity and calm, with external operable venetians to control light, privacy and heat gains.
ADDARC designed the St Kilda Residence on a grid of rammed earth walls, with the directional changes echoed in the timber and stone flooring. It required upfront detailing, coordination and prototyping with the builder LBA Construction Group and rammed earth contractor, Olnee Constructions, that resulted in a meticulously crafted, natural-hued home.
