Closed and exposed, the Concord House is a testament of love for concrete and a creative freedom to design.
There is a love affair set in concrete, right here in Concord, Sydney. Completed in May 2016, the low maintenance, contemporary four-bedroom house has been designed to showcase the owners’ love for concrete and to provide more space and greater amenity for their family of four. The Concord House_I may look like a typical minimalist home like many of Le Corbusier’s, but it goes beyond its utilitarian concrete façade.
Conceived by Ian Bennett from Studio Benicio, a boutique contemporary residential design practice located in Newport Beach on Sydney’s Northern Beaches, the studio specialises in all facets of residential design and documentation for new dwellings, alterations, interior design and industrial practice. The brief was to create a new contemporary house that would make better use of the existing site than the tired, red brick cottage. The clients own and operate a form work business, which in turn has garnered them a great love and appreciation for concrete and wanted their home to feature this throughout.
The challenge lays in designing something quite contemporary, including all items of the brief, which included keeping the existing pool, without any flourishes that would make the home non-compliant – all on a modestly sized site.
Due to past struggles and time delays with Council, the clients requested we use the ‘Complying Development’ approval system to expedite the process, which requires buildings to meet strict standards to ensure a fast- tracked approvals process. The process applies to construction such as new homes (up to two storeys) renovations or extensions to an existing home, development of a ‘granny flat’, building a swimming pool and decks.
Esta historia es de la edición Issue 95 de d+a.
Comience su prueba gratuita de Magzter GOLD de 7 días para acceder a miles de historias premium seleccionadas y a más de 9,000 revistas y periódicos.
Ya eres suscriptor ? Conectar
Esta historia es de la edición Issue 95 de d+a.
Comience su prueba gratuita de Magzter GOLD de 7 días para acceder a miles de historias premium seleccionadas y a más de 9,000 revistas y periódicos.
Ya eres suscriptor? Conectar
Nature Guiding Nurture
A luxury resort obtains inspiration from ecological protection and local motifs
Reimagining Singapore's Future: From Nation Building To National Reuse
Two decades ago, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong painted a vivid architectural picture of Singapore as a nation perpetually under construction (Lee, 2003).
Range Rover Velar Unveiled
Innovative technology has been put to excellent use in updating the design of the Range Rover Velar
Clean, Green, And Connected
Skyblox Co-Living in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia is leading the way to sustainable and uplifting urban housing
Custom Production Boosts This Manufacturer's Position
Danovel's expertise in custom services is buoyed by advanced technology and trends awareness
Three Strategies To See If AI Creativity Is Limited Or Limitless
The two columns have exactly same sentences but with completely different meanings when read in reverse. We all see exactly the same AI, but each of us can come to completely different conclusions whether AI creativity is limited or limitless.
focus on quality and innovation
Despite proven capability in supplying furniture to large-scale projects, Design Studio Vito Selma requires no minimum order
filling in the gaps
Leading manufacturers introduce highly innovative solutions in response to the evolving uses of the kitchen
where beauty, meaning and function meet
Great design should be able to enrich people's experience of their surroundings
unpacking titoudao
Goh Boon Teck directs and designs his multiple-award-winning play with copious amount of research and experimentation