Above : The home ’ s bedrooms and service rooms are positioned on the perimeter , responding to boundary setbacks , while the central great room extends five metres up to the roof . The white panel to the right brings privacy to the upstairs teenagers ’ domain and acts as a screen that shadows play across .
Right : The deliberately compressed hallway makes the arrival into the great room even more dramatic .
However , the dramatic home ’ s central space , makes a much grander impression .
The leading feature of this living space – and really the defining feature of the home – is the giant steel and glass curtain wall at one end of the room that soars five metres to the stepped roofline . This is created in an arresting fenestration pattern that can loosely be described as crazy paving . The patterning has an abstract , sculptural quality but also echoes the tree branches and other variegated lines of nature seen across the pool in the rear yard .
And the view out is only half of the story . search | save | share at