East Room House, Brisbane QLD
East Room House, Queensland Home, Australian Real Estate Development, QLD Architecture, Photography
East Room House in Brisbane
25 May 2022
Architecture: Loucas Zahos Architects
Location: Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Photos by Christopher Frederick Jones
East Room House, QLD
East Room House is located in an established suburb in Brisbane, Australia?s inner north-east amongst traditional character homes. Instinctively, the architecture of the house draws on queues from its vernacular context.
The architecture of the traditional Queensland house was driven by a need to address specific subtropical climatic conditions but also a necessity to adopt practical construction techniques that were responsive to the Brisbane terrain. The site of the East Room House is characterised by a gradually sloping terrain that falls away from the street. The entry level of the East Room House creates an elevated platform that establishes a datum that aligns with street level and in doing so, engages with the street. This monolithic platform constructed from exposed concrete, provides the base that bears the lightweight delicate interpretation of the Queensland home above. The concrete form of the entry plane carves out spaces for living, the pool and vertical circulation, contrasting to the materiality of the lightweight glass and steel pavilion above.
The house is organised along a North to South circulation spine. The street frontage bears a Northern orientation. The Southern orientat...
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