Perforated House / Kavellaris Urban Design   Architects:
Kavellaris Urban Design Location: , Australia Project team:
Billy Kavellaris & Rodrigo Sandoval Mateluna Photographs:
Courtesy of Kavellaris Urban Design  © Kavellaris Urban Design
We challenge the idea that small inner city blocks cannot
respond to complex contextual constraints such as orientation,
sustainability, innovative urban infill planning controls and
heritage restrictions. Instead of negotiating with these so
called ‘constraints’, we utilized them as areas of possibility
and exploration for our design processes and discourse.  ©
Kavellaris Urban Design  This once vacant site is nestled at the
eastern bookend between a row of single fronted Victorian
terraces and a double fronted Edwardian weatherboard house. Our
strategy was to critique and respond to our ongoing research
into the terrace typology. We concluded that this demand and
attraction for such a housing model has a stronger link with
romanticized nostalgia rather than of good desig