VISION 52 – MITCHELL ST RESIDENCE NORTHCOTE
Residential design is architecture’s
heartland. It’s a place where there is
no escaping the need to deliver high
calibre work to demanding budgets
and high expectations. All the while
with clients peering over the designer’s
shoulder to ensure their dream is fully
realised. It’s an ongoing challenge
facing residential architects unable to
pile one floor plate solution on top of
the other high into the sky.
No, the home demands a watch-maker’s attention in
its making to be in perfect time with its owners needs.
At its best, architecture tunes in with nature. It’s why
glass can provide such a seamless transition between
the built and natural. High-end performance glass such
as Viridian’s further blends the physical boundaries
that more typically isolate.
Rather than forced in preconceived ways, Raffoul’s
residential designs are illuminating with their interior
transparency as well as glimpsed and grand views.
Sprinkled throughout the suburbs, often amongst
cookie-cutter period and contemporary homes,
such work is full of invention and surprise. Mass
and slenderness, shadow and light transmute to
remarkable effect.
PROJECT WINDOW SUPPLIER
Mitchell St Residence,
Northcote, Melbourne N/A (Frameless)
ARCHITECT Viridian
FGR Architects
ENGINEER
Structural Works
GLASS SUPPLIER
PRINCIPAL GLAZING
Ground Floor: Viridian SuperClear™
First Floor: Viridian SolTech™
BUILDER TEXT, IMAGES & FILM
Mannfield Group Peter & Jenny Hyatt
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