Kew Island House

House sighted in the Kew Island where it looks like the indoor plants are trying to get out the high level glazing.

1:1 backyard model

Testing heights and sunlight.

Doncaster Modern

Albert Street Fireplaces

Sound Gate in Soundwall

On the Craigieburn Bypass - ready for the next stretch of suburbia.

Rainbow Sky

Rainbow over spotted gum beams at our just completed Drummond St extension. 
Thank you to all involved.
Great photo Sarah.

Screens in production

Some gold anodised aluminium sun screens / privacy screens under production, for Miller Street, Fitzroy North.

Brick love

Modified Monk Bond

Internal thermal mass for a house in a shed.

Little Oxford St hole

Love a patchwork demolition.

There is currently a massive hole on Smith St / Lt Oxford St opposite our first office (in the Patterson building). If you like diggers, get along and take a packed lunch.

Mood plan for a house in the country

Dickmann Desks

Toilet Triptych

3 unrealised public toilet projects from the archives.

Euroa

For the local Lions club, who wanted something of the Kelly history worked in. We though literal was best.

Port Gellibrand

An expression of interest for Parks Vic. A shipping container located ever so contextually next to the beach, with incisions learnt from Phooey at Skinners.

Trailer Mark II

A long car haul trailer with the Natural Event composting wheelie bin toilets housed in fold out glory. Unfortunately, but not surprisingly, more expensive than pallet racking.

m 101 2010

Aluminium pendant or ceiling fixed lighting. Available in brushed gold anodized, brushed natural anodized or polished natural anodized aluminium. Custom colours and lengths are available upon request.

Designed in collaboration with Stuart Mcfarlane.

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mannasmann on dickmann @ 87.5% complete

Operational.
Our temporary privacy screen / recycled stair (in foreground) still awaits jenga fitoff.

Mannasmann on Dickmann

 

Finally we are moving. Our new office is at 19 Dickmann St, Richmond. Goodbye to chair fights, drum practice and the smell of pizza in the afternoon. Hello to 5 secured years of on-going innuendo.

Expression of Interest Submission for new Faculty Building at Melbourne University

As some of you will know, we have recently put together a submission for the new Architecture, Building and Planning faculty building at Melbourne University.
Our application was not selected to go to the next round.
Here it is anyway.
To see the short list click here

eco cubbies project with Jon Pye Architects

 

The eco cubby project is about architects working with primary school students to design and, ultimately build sustainable cubbies. We are working with Jon Pye and the year 5 / 6's from Bundalaguah Primary. So far we have had 2 trips to the school, with the third happening next week. As a group we have undertaken site analysis and identified a site (by a unanimous vote), in the south west corner of the school yard. The students have also made 1:20 precedent study models of playground equipment at their school and models of themselves. They also made a number of sketch models and a final, consolidated, version. This has been translated into measured drawings and the students will make a 1:10 model of the final design in the coming weeks. Click here for more information and eco cubby's web page.

new Australia pavilion, Venice

 

Our entry for the Di Stasio Competition to redesign the Australia pavilion at the Venice Biennale. Our pavilion engaged with the expanse of our continent and the red colour of the soils with the undulating copper floor. The tracking of people across it's surface would be evident as the surface patinated in time. In the water-centric setting it seemed appropriate to reflect on Australian aqua-environments. It seemed too hard to convincingly provide a beach. Instead we floated a glass bottomed swimming pool above our 'dry brown land'. Part relocated canal, part light filter, this water mass had clear occuli allowing patches of stronger sunlight through into the pavilions interior, reflecting on the harsh Australia light.

Before this blog.... there was the CD

 

BEFORE THIS BLOG... ...THERE WAS THE CD 

For projects, exhibition work and competition entries undertaken by our Collective, please see our pdf folio. Copies are available through our office. Please email us: rexroth@rexroth.net.au or phone the office on +613 9419 0622

Venice Biennale

This model, made for the Australia Stand at the Venice Biennale 2008, abstracts a number of themes explored in residential alterations undertaken by our practice. Traditional architectural model making techniques are combined with domestic and bush crafts, using new (gold wire and boxboard) and recycled (street sweeper blades and beer boxes). Our built work focuses on the fabric of building and the ritual of habitation. In this model the investigation of 'making' is separated from that of occupation. The inner spindle creates rooms with occupiable edges. It synthesises the connectedness of the modernist open plan with the spatial and social ordering of the Victorian parlour spaces. The golden screen is a technological experiment. It provides a protective skin for the delicate silhouettes, filtering light and mediating views.