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Three Angle House
PERFECT-IMPERFECT HOUSE
Two Angle House
Tiro Townhouses
Argo
House of Bronzed Steel & Stone
CRESSY TOWNHOUSES
PLEATED HOUSE
Shadow Roll House
91 Alexandra Avenue
Convertible Courtyards House
The Mayfair
MILROY STREET
H.I.V.E. X FIVE
SARGOOD STREET
Cumquat Tree House
Oakleigh Road
Luxford
Mathoura Road
Heather Street Townhouses
222 Burke Road
Tripartite Homestead
Karinya
Lori
New Ormond
Kindred
125 Alexandra Avenue
Alexandra Street

CRESSY TOWNHOUSES

City / Developments / Interiors

Located on a leafy established street in the inner Melbourne suburb of Malvern, two new elegant townhouses stand seamlessly side by side without revealing the softer elements that can be found within.

A simple yet distinguished exterior palette of shale grey render, bronze aluminium and zinc set the tone for a balanced and sophisticated interior.  Upon entry, the external orthogonal forms unravel to reveal a sinuous set of curved walls that lead to a double height void with a sculptural spiral stair.  The interior features slabs of New Savoir limestone, European oak floors, brushed nickel fixtures, tonal grey joinery and Japanese glazed ceramic finger tiles as an elemental backdrop that allows the volumetric spaces and light of each home to become the distinctive features.

Floor to ceiling windows and doors with external blinds, fixed perforated and horizontal screens bring different levels of dappled light deep into each room.  In addition to the previously mentioned double height void, skylights, light courts, clerestorey windows and up to 3.6m high ceilings were all strategies implemented to ensure that the southern townhouse in the pair would receive near equal levels of natural daylight to the north facing home.  In doing so, the design for the Cressy Street Townhouses was able to make efficient spatial use of the site without the compromise of daylight so often found in the semidetached typology.

In large part, the success of the Cressy Street Townhouses can be found in the way the natural light becomes a sculpted and manipulated material within the spaces that emphasizes and animates the juxtaposition between fluid and rigid forms.

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