Working drawing house St Kilda (1997-8) by Nervegna Reed
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Designed on a tight inner city site, the house explores the notion of the
incorporation of a fluid cinematic space within a tight envelope. Spaces flow
into each other using the garden and street as interlocking volumes.
The car-park (which doubles as a concrete and plywood cinema) flows under the
living spaces. The living spaces cascade from above the car-park (to ensure
privacy from the street) down to the back garden.
The form of the house with its multiple split levels and service core evokes
virtual images of the small 1960’s office building-as house, the free plan and
section of Adolf Loos and the citrohan houses of Le Corbusier.
Part of the working drawing of the house has been self-reflexively printed on
the façades of the house in reflective road-sign tape, to expose the
construction history of the project as an x-ray-style form of modern
decoration.
Photos: John Gollings
