In Connect Parkville we pursue the idea of ?stitching together? urban fabric with ?quiet architecture?, informed by Austrian architect Hermann Czech?s ?architecture as background?. We work to principles of ?simple moves? and economy: no more, or less, than is necessary to achieve our program.

© Rhiannon Slatter Photography

Architects: Steffen Welsch Architects

Location: Melbourne VIC, Australia

Project Year: 2015

Photographs: Rhiannon Slatter Photography

© Rhiannon Slatter Photography

In Connect Parkville we pursue the idea of ?stitching together? urban fabric with ?quiet architecture?, informed by Austrian architect Hermann Czech?s ?architecture as background?. We work to principles of ?simple moves? and economy: no more, or less, than is necessary to achieve our program.
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These are universal ideals applied in a site and brief specific response. This project, for a family of five in a visually intact but functionally stressed conservation area, required another layer over existing program and built form. Our insertion is a quiet addition that relies not on references but scale and contrast executed with appropriate confidence. The addition is backdrop, its exterior casual, formed by lightness. 

© Rhiannon Slatter Photography

We have taken the idea of layering literally: the brief (accommo...