Hip and Gable Australia
Once was a time when a roof was a roof. Mostly it just sat up there to keep the rain off, but more importantly, it looked like a roof. A roof would hold itself in such a way, with its jaunty gables, casual hips and firm ridges, to let the world know that this house is a house. A noble task indeed. Yet, for the most part, a roof would do precious little to enliven the warren of rooms below.
With Hip & Gable, Architecture Architecture pays homage to a dignified, long-serving Californian Bungalow in suburban Australia, while enticing it to say a little more and to do a little more too.
Indeed, the roof is still a roof. It rests over the house and it shelters its occupants. But where the ceilings were once low and flat, now they are generous and varied. A gentle underbelly has been revealed; it lifts and dips, shades and illuminates, shaping the many rooms and moods of the house
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Hip and Gable by Architecture Architecture
Hip and Gable by Architecture Architecture
Hip and Gable by Architecture Architecture
Hip and Gable by Architecture Architecture
Hip and Gable by Architecture Architecture
Hip and Gable by Architecture Architecture
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Images Peter Bennetts