Kross House
FIGR Architecture & Design · Mount Martha, Victoria, Australia · 2024
Projects / Project
Hot Top Peak
A compact Richmond home on a 175 m2 corner site testing urban densification.
The timber-lined gable above the living room.
- Practice
- FIGR Architecture & Design
- Year
- 2022
- Photographer
- Tom Blachford
The project
FIGR Architecture Studio designed Hot Top Peak on a 175 m2 site with two street frontages in busy Richmond, Melbourne, completed in 2022 for about A$600,000. The house is an experiment in what urban densification can achieve on a tiny site.
Instead of adding a conventional open-plan extension at the back, the design reshapes the whole home around a timber-lined gabled core with a green steel frame, a vine-covered courtyard and built-in shelving, with a bright red and blue tiled bathroom.
A window seat opening to the ivy courtyard.
Bookshelves above the doors to the courtyard.
The dining table inside the green steel frame.
A concrete bench and the timber kitchen beyond.
A red and blue tiled bathroom with an arched mirror.
Credits
- Architect
- FIGR Architecture Studio
- Photographer
- Tom Blachford
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