Colour Shingle House, North Melbourne Property, Victoria Home Design, Australia, Architect
Colour Shingle House in Melbourne
31 Aug 2020
Colour Shingle House in North Melbourne
Design: Krisna Cheung Architects
Location: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Now that Melbourne has experienced the world-changing potency of a global viral pandemic, we might have a better appreciation of the world-changing potential of an idea going viral. The Colour Shingle House project represents an effort to scale up a typology through viral repetition while maintaining architectural and design quality through imagination and playfulness. It is somewhat unique in that it is not a standalone project, but an organic progression from a prior successful design, which is arguably more representative of real-world architectural practice.
In 2016, we gratefully accepted the ArchiTeam Award in the commercial category for our Studio Garage, a typology-busting project tackling an architectural solution to the problem of effectively working from home in a time when the ?working from home? was still a relatively esoteric luxury reserved for executives with enough clout to negotiate flexible working arrangements, or small scale entrepreneurs in creative fields, such as musicians or architects.

In the Covid era, ?working from home? has unceremoniously burst into mainstream consciousness, making the need for a functionally separate form within a residential site dedicated to commercial or professional acti...