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Issue 60 - The Kitchen and Bathroom Issue

Issue 60

The Kitchen and Bathroom Issue

HABITUS has always stood ahead of the rest with a dedicated Kitchen and Bathroom issue of exemplar standards. For issue 60 we have taken it up a notch with our Guest Editor the extraordinary, queen of kitchen design, Sarah-Jane Pyke of Arent&Pyke, speaking directly to Kitchen and Bathroom design with some increadable insights.

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Winnings x Habitus House of the Year shortlist: Six Ways House by Kennedy Nolan
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Winnings x Habitus House of the Year shortlist: Six Ways House by Kennedy Nolan

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Habitus House of the Year 2024 Nominee

Architecture

Kennedy Nolan

Photography

Derek Swalwell

Six Ways House by Kennedy Nolan has been shortlisted for Winnings x Habitus House of the Year 2024.


This house is a nuanced response to context, balancing confident, contemporary expression with love and respect for the neighbourhood.  It’s also a delightful place to live. That is, a thermally efficient, light filled dwelling with an emphasis on connection to landscape.

We looked at corner buildings in the North Fitzroy vicinity and were drawn to the performative role of first floor balconies, the sense of a public loggia.

The main intentions remain – a considered balance between solid and void which emphasizes elegant planes of masonry with a concentration of detail around apertures.  We split the function of the Victorian first floor balcony with a theatrical dining room taking the role of public space in the most prominent corner – the sense of being on public display ameliorated through the use of strategically placed mirrors to confuse sightlines.  Proportions are drawn from surrounding buildings, with an emphasis on first floor scale – a piano nobile, tall and elegant.  A first floor balcony is recessed, sized for use not display, offering privacy further back in the site. 

In terms of siting, we were careful to reinforce the five metre subdivision rhythm and this allowed us to both hold the southern edge on the ‘six ways’ and provide north orientation and garden aspect to all principal rooms.  The spatial arrangement is ‘reverse living’, with kitchen, living and dining room on the first floor. Colour palette is derived from the handsome copse of spotted gums in the centre of the six ways – surfaces are generally uncoated and textural, the emphasis is on the views out, especially to the garden – the effect is austere but warm and comfortable. 

Read about the 2024 Winnings x Habitus House of the Year shortlist: Bellevue Hill House by Greg Natale


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Issue 60 - The Kitchen and Bathroom Issue

Issue 60

The Kitchen and Bathroom Issue

HABITUS has always stood ahead of the rest with a dedicated Kitchen and Bathroom issue of exemplar standards. For issue 60 we have taken it up a notch with our Guest Editor the extraordinary, queen of kitchen design, Sarah-Jane Pyke of Arent&Pyke, speaking directly to Kitchen and Bathroom design with some increadable insights.

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