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Rhythm House in Melbourne
Extended Residential Development in Victoria, Australia – design by Delia Teschendorff Architecture
3 Oct 2017
Rhythm House
Design: Delia Teschendorff Architecture
Location: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Rhythm House

The Rhythm house is a home designed for a family of musicians. An existing Heritage timber bungalow is extended to provide new living areas, a specialised sound recording space and performance area that accommodates a grand piano. A dramatic contrast between the existing and proposed extension was important to the project.The structural expression of the new form is reminiscent of a well tuned instrument, like a deconstructed piano or double bass. The rhythm house adopts a new construction system of engineered LVL portal frames. These are expressed internally and externally and also provide a secondary function of providing the faceted internal surface ideal for an effective acoustic space.
What was the brief"

Rhythm House is a renovation and extension to an existing Heritage 1920?s bungalow in West Brunswick. The owners approached me with a unique brief. A family of five and all accomplished musicians, they wanted a family home with the capacity to be a performance space and also a recording studio; a hybrid functioning home; a ?Rhythm House?.

What were the key challenges"

Heritage guidelines required that the existing Heritage...