Architecture studio Edition Office has completed Naples Street House, a multi-generational home in Melbourne designed as a "carved solid" wrapped in bricks.
Raised on a concrete plinth, the geometric home accommodates three generations of the client's family and is topped with a roof pitched in various directions to form multiple peaks.
Edition Office has wrapped Naples Street House in pale bricks
To help Naples Street House appear as a carved-out volume, Edition Office wrapped its walls and angular roof form in matching light-coloured bricks.
"The singular outer material presents the house as a carved solid, formally referencing low-slung pitched roof forms of the original interwar houses of the neighbourhood," said the studio. The home has a cuboid form with pyramidal roofs
Edition Office's design restricts the house to a small footprint and prioritises natural space, including a garden at the centre of the building's plan.
"The central garden room allows northern sun to penetrate deep into the living spaces of the home during winter, passively warming the thermal mass of the burnished concrete floors while remaining naturally shaded and cool during summer," the studio explained.
A central garden helps bring in natural light
Naples Street House's central courtyard is lined with the same brick as the walls and roof and dotted with curved areas of planting.
Inside, rooms and corridors wrap around the courtyard with those directly bordering it f...