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Gundowring House by Bryant Alsop is a contemporary, off-grid rural home set in the Kiewa Valley at Tangambalanga, Victoria. The practice approached the project as much as an act of placemaking as architectural invention, weighing the beauty of the pastoral setting against its seasonal weather extremes when siting the house.
The response is a deliberate gesture in robust materials. A monumental Cor-ten northern façade, punctuated by deeply recessed openings, stands quietly and resolutely in the landscape. Arrival is through a compressed hallway that opens onto a picture window framing the view down the Kiewa Valley, giving those who enter a moment to pause.
Off-form concrete blade walls run north to south, ordering the plan as simple, tactile elements, while the remaining materials were chosen to be raw and sustainable. Though starkly modern in form, the patina of weathering steel lends the single-level, 440 square metre house a sense of having always been there. The intent is for the home to settle further into its surroundings as the landscape grows in and around it over time.
Completed in 2017.
Architect: Bryant Alsop (Sarah Bryant, Rob Randell, Richard Bryant). Photography: Rhiannon Slatter.
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- Project Size: 440 m2
- Building Levels: 1
- Completion Date: 2017
- Photographer: Rhiannon Slatter
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