Rhythm House in Melbourne
RHYTHM HOUSE
Delia Teschendorff Architecture
ARCHITECTS
Delia Teschendorff Architecture
LOCATION
Melbourne, Australia
CATEGORY
Houses
YEAR
2017
MANUFACTURERS
Breezway, Frencham Cypress, Pickering Joinery, Timber Imagineering
STRUCTURAL ENGINEER
Tim Gibney and Assoc. Engineers
TOWN PLANNING CONSULTANT
Perry Town Planning
ACOUSTIC ENGINEER
Marshall Day Acoustic Engineers
Text description provided by architect.
Rhythm House is a renovation and extension to an existing Heritage 1920’s bungalow in West Brunswick.
The owners approached me with a unique brief. A family of five and all accomplished musicians, they wanted a family home with the capacity to be a performance space and also a recording studio; a hybrid functioning home; a “Rhythm House”.
The Rhythm house is a home designed for a family of musicians. An existing Heritage timber bungalow is extended to provide new living areas, a specialised sound recording space and performance area that accommodates a grand piano.
A dramatic contrast between the existing and proposed extension was important to the project.
The structural expression of the new form is reminiscent of a well tuned instrument, like a deconstructed piano or double bass. The rhythm house adopts a new construction system of engineered LVL portal frames.
These are expressed internally and externally and also provide a secondary function of providing the faceted internal surface ideal for an effective acoustic space.
