委托建造这栋房子的家庭已经在这个地方住了很多年，在短暂地搬到附近街道的一个更大的房子和花园后，他们得出结论，他们觉得与老街和老百姓的关系非常密切。现有的房子不能满足他们七口之家的需要，对现有房子的改建和加建的调查使他们得出结论，需要一个新的房子。
The family commissioning this house had lived on the site for many years and after a short-lived move to a much larger house and garden in a nearby street concluded that they felt very connected to their old street and its people. The existing house couldn’t cope with their large family of seven and an investigation of alterations and additions to the existing house led them to the conclusion that a new house was required.
当时的要求是在一个高度可持续发展的建筑中舒适地容纳七个人的房子。我们也被要求考虑到邻居，他们非常重视街道的爱德华时代的特征。我们的调查显示，爱德华时代花园式郊区的一个突出特点是炉灶和烟囱从茂密的树冠中出现。
The brief then was a house to comfortably accommodate seven people in a highly sustainable building. We were also asked to be considerate of the neighbours who were very attached to the Edwardian character of the street. Our investigations revealed that a salient characteristic of the Edwardian garden suburb was rooves and chimneys emerging from lush tree canopies.
为了找到一个可行的模式，我们将艺术与工艺运动和它的原现代主义哲学作为满足我们的简要要求和我们自己对现代性的渴望的一种方式。我们的许多建筑兴趣与工艺美术哲学的思想和美学相一致。
In finding a workable model we looked to the Arts and Crafts movement and it’s proto-modernist philosophies as a way to satisfy our brief requirements and our own compulsion to modernity. Many of our architectural interests aligned with the ideas and aesthetics of the Arts and Crafts philosophy.
这座房子也有奇思妙想、快乐和美丽：形式上富有表现力的烟囱和手工制作的锅，主生活区的香柏衬托的金字塔，砖和混凝土后亭的重量和阴影，室内表面的强烈色彩和纹理–所有这些都促成了这座房子远远超过其组成部分的总和。
There is also whimsy, joy and beauty in this house: the formally expressive chimneys with their hand made pots, the fragrant cedar lined pyramid of the main living area, the heft and shadow of the brick and concrete rear pavilion, the intense colour and texture of the interior surfaces – all contribute to a house which is so much more than the sum of its parts.
Architects: Kennedy Nolan
Area: 392 m²
Year: 2016
Photographs: Derek Swalwell
Manufacturers: Interia
Lead Architects: Patrick Kennedy, Rachel Nolan, Susannah Lempriere, Matilda Blazey, Adriana Hanna
Other Participants:Amanda Oliver Gardens
City:Melbourne
Country:Australia