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Oak Grove Residence in East Malvern
Residential Development, Melbourne, Victoria – design by Justin Mallia Architecture
14 Nov 2016
Oak Grove Residence
Design: Justin Mallia Architecture
Location: East Malvern, Melbourne, Australia
Oak Grove Residence

Oak Grove is a development driven venture. Between a detailed client brief laden with ideas about visual style, and the site located in the eclectic suburban context of East Malvern, the architecture negotiates a meaningful contemporary response within highly saturated physical and conceptual parameters.

For cost efficiency the project involves two identical rectangular houses placed at ninety degrees to one another creating a garden setting that brings the feeling of the large street trees into the site. Each house has the same folded front façade derived from the site?s slightly angular orientation to north, with different alternate facets protruding, openable, glazed or solid, giving all habitable spaces flexible cross ventilation, north orientation and connection to outside. With each façade designed to be suitable at two different orientations, the resulting appearance from the street is a series of differently folded shifting patchwork elevations rather than two identical buildings alongside one another.
The project procures a sense of value through the expression of inexpensive materials according to their attributes a...