Progress from Furneaux Distillery, Flinders Island TAS.
Last month the team on site gave the project a push towards completion. The interior for the tasting room, including meticulous formwork for the island bar has been fabricated here in Melbourne by none other than @djmuzz The interior components were fabricated into segments to be packed into a container and shipped to the island. The concrete bar has now been poured and the Blackbutt interior has been installed.
In this picture you can see the north facing entry courtyard to the tasting room underway. The round window in the courtyard wall provides a framed view to the native forest behind the distillery. From the entry courtyard you will have a clear view south through the tasting room to the pristine coastline and The Hazards beyond.
Jul 31
Village Quarters
As a continuation of our investigation into ageing in place / independent living accommodation with our Living Quarters project, we recently embarked on the Remagining Where We Live Competition for the Department of Health and Aged Care.
Our research has identified that a dwelling of 4-5 people feels like a home. To scale this concept, we developed a model of two joined homes, creating a shared household/dwelling of no more than 8 residents around a shared living space and kitchen.
The Village Quarters proposal was to arrange this module in two repeatable configurations to create a village of shared, domestic scaled households. This model is designed to
be scaled up or down and facilitate varying configurations to foster a community built around the Aged Care Design Principles and Guidelines in any context.
A very special thank you to the @sblastudio team for the collaboration, @aliceblackwood and the wonderful effort from the Ha team @issey_me_markay @aariskatsoulakis @stevecoster33
A big congratulations to the winning entrants and in-particular our peers who we are excited to continue to conversation with.
You can view the winning schemes at the link below:
https://www.health.gov.au/reimagining-where-we-live/winners
May 24
After many projects of varying scales and use, there is still nothing more challenging yet rewarding than unlocking a 5m wide row house’s potential. When you add into the equation south facing rear yard, strict heritage overlay due to the subject site being on a prominent street corner, neighbours, questionable localised planning policy, budget constraints, and then designing through the midst of covid lockdown via zoom, it starts to become a daunting proposition.
After 4 years, with 2 of those years negotiating planning approval, we would like to finally introduce you to #hasouthhouse
A big thank you to our amazingly trusting and supportive clients @chantelmcglade @jason_mcglade 🙏🏽
A wonderful effort by the dream team who seamlessly delivered the project:
@frame_works_melbourne
@nayyf
@_popplant
@r.i.brown
@floreancigsmith
@hula.hoop.troop
@alicemccoll
Stay tuned for more about this project✌️
Photo by @phamstapham
May 14
We are excited to see our first mass-timber project nearing completion at @furneauxdistillery
The tasting room interior will be constructed in the final stage over the coming months.
Stay tuned for more on this special project of ours as it opens for visitors very soon.
Photo by @theislanddistiller
Jan 31
