Pleated House
Megowan Architectural
How do you make a Pleat? First you fold,
then you heat. A folded roof form and
charred cypress cladding are the obvious
highlights of this extension to an existing
single storey weatherboard in beachy
Highett.
Given the home was going to be built by a
well-traveled roof plumber and his design
aware partner, a simple flat roofed box out
the back just wasn’t going to be an option.
Equally a homage to the folded plate roof
forms familiar to midcentury modernism
(Donald Wexler, Barry Berkus, Pierre Koenig
to name a few) and the iconic bathing boxes
which dot Port Phillip Bay, the folded roof
was implemented to allow for clerestory
windows to let light deep into the living
spaces of the extension from the north, east
and west. The six different shaped clerestory
windows were a key strategy to addressing
the day lighting issues inherent in a south
facing rear yard.
A large box gutter separates old from new
and kept untidy spouting out of sight and out
of mind. The central valley of the roof form
was centered on the existing entry to the
home, thus framing a view to the family (and
dog) sized rear yard.
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