Already a subscriber?What if your home was not just your castle – a refuge for you and your family – but also a sculptural addition to the streetscape? That’s the sort of thought that crossed architect Michael Leeton’s mind when responding to a brief to create an inner-suburban Melbourne home for a couple with two children.
He and the client – in this case his wife, Sarah Chang-Raffoul, who also happens to be an architect – began reflecting on the traditional way of ensuring privacy: by drawing curtains across windows. Since their company, FGR Architects, specialises in concrete structures, they designed the house as a “concrete curtain” that would at once conceal and reveal the family life within.
“We deliberately pared back the materials palette and employed them in a quite monolithic way to keep the eye moving throughout the space,” says Raffoul.Indeed, the long, blocky, green-stone kitchen workbench continues through a glass wall out onto the patio, where it houses a barbecue grill – the perfect incarnation of Australia’s indoor/outdoor lifestyle.
Rounded joinery is a feature in Luna House, and a practical necessity given it’s home to two children.From the curvaceous entry foyer with its wispy staircase,the eye moves through a series of compressed spaces that open into more expansive zones. These compressions and contractions create a dynamic tension that culminates in a grand, single-glass panel wall that frames the garden and pool area.The pool area viewed from within Luna House.
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