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Bismarck House

2019
Photographer: Peter Bennetts

Photographer: Peter Bennetts

PRODUCTS

Formakami JH5&TRADITION
The Bismarck House is the younger sibling of a pair of semi-detached dwellings
in Bondi. The design uses raw materials and sculpted spaces to integrate house
and garden while orchestrating social interactions between the more public
areas of the house and the laneway that runs along the semi’s northern
boundary.
runs along the semi’s northern boundary.
Our conceptual starting point for the project was to map the detailed context of
the laneway: a long thin footprint immediately adjacent to the gritty rear-lane
access for multiple commercial properties fronting onto Bondi Rd.
Into this context the ground floor of the house was conceived spatially and
materially as a continuous garden between the boundary walls of the site. The
brick common wall of the semi to the south was exposed and the new laneway
edge to the north was rebuilt using bricks recycled from the site demolition. The
garden is formed around key figures within the plan: the kitchen bench, a
window seat to the lane, a concrete structural blade wall, a steel cabinet for
storage.
The upper level, containing three bedrooms, is conceived as a solid mass that
carves voids for light, creating diagonal and oblique viewing lines along the
length of the laneway for the bedrooms, thereby moderating potential privacy
loss from the rear facades across the laneway. These scoops of light allow the
garden to be continuous along the majority of the site length, with the main
scoop shaped around a new Bismarck Palm introduced as part of the garden
works.
The house is an open, light filled, and flexible dwelling. It has been specifically
designed to orchestrate many possibilities and uses, both functionally and
socially, while showcasing our client’s capability in construction and landscape
design. The house seeks to energize its laneway context, transforming the
typical semi typology materially, formally, and socially through its response to
the lane.
An over scaled kitchen window with a generous window seat opens directly onto
the lane, encouraging conversations between occupants of the kitchen and the
laneway – whether with the kids playing in the lane, or people passing by. The
upper level of pleated aluminum scoops and curves to create a series of
gardens running the length of the laneway, buffering the upper level rooms from
the immediacy of the many neighbours across the lane.
Our brief was to provide a flexible house that could be used as a holiday rental
or as a future city house if our clients ever moved away. The house was also to
be experimental and original in nature, showcasing Robert Plumb Projects ’
building capacity, while also prioritizing the garden, to be designed by Will’s
landscape company DBS, as an integral part of the house. The house is a very
direct response to these functional and creative goals of our client’s brief.
William Dangar (landscape architect/client), brought Andrew Burges Architects,
David Harrison & Karen McCartney (interior), and Robert Plumb Build together
at the onset of the project. The material palette was honed through close
collaboration between all, and with key trades: The pleated screen sits off an
insulated, standard colorbond sheet wall, prototyped with the roofer to test
window integration and transparency.
Custom designed, locally made pieces enrich each space: the living room
primer-red steel storage unit/wall; bespoke steel doors integrate into raw
concrete and brick reveals; crafted timber screens mediate laneway activity;
bedroom shelves curve with fine rods tracing overhead.
Robust materials were chosen for longevity and their suitability for integrating
energy efficient heating and cooling. The concrete floor slabs at ground and first
levels are the final finished slabs and soffits. Each floor has hydronic heating coil
cast in - a long view cost choice. Cost was a major factor, so a limited palette
also framed the development of the interiors, supplemented with carefully
selected vintage pieces involving many hours and hand selected items collected
by David and Karen. We also liked that choosing vintage is a sustainable choice
that gives a second life to existing pieces.
The site was chosen for its NE aspect, the proximity of infrastructure and the
coast, and the potential for borrowing along the northern laneway. The internal
footprint is restrained to enable a continuous garden running along and between
rooms, while facilitating cross ventilation between interior and garden.
Ventilators channel the NE breeze.
Garden courtyards provide privacy and shade, while folded steel awnings and
screens protect the glass. The bricks are all recycled from the original structures
on site. Each floor has hydronic heating coil cast into the slab: sustained heat in
winter and a cool base in summer. Upstairs, the curved external walls are
sheltered by a pleated, perforated screen forming permanent shade,
(supplemented by the Bismarck palm canopy). The light scoops cut out of the
floorplate allow the bedrooms to be oriented diagonally across the lane, and
open the site to the north and north east.
The screen, and all the construction, were designed and fabricated through
collaboration with local workshops. The garden is both beautiful and hardy.
Species are native and/or succulent, with no lawn. It is an extremely low water-
intensive green space, including the raised garden bed that shelters the main
bedroom from the harshest westerly sun.
Design Team:
Builder: Robert Plumb Build
Interior Design: Design Daily, David Harrison, Karen McCartney
Structural Engineer: E2 Civil & Structural
Services: Amuheat, Crystal Air Services
Interior Consultant: Design Daily
Project Team: Andrew Burges, Min Dark, Eric Ye, Peter Ewald-Rice
Landscape Architect: Dangar Barin Smith
Photographer:

PRODUCTS

Formakami JH3&TRADITION
Photographer: Caitlin Mills
Photographer: Peter Bennetts
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