Squeezebox townhouses

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‘Squeeze­box and the Ena­m­aller’, the project is the trans­for­ma­tion of a 1950’s enam­elling work­shop into a mod­ern mul­ti-res­i­den­tial build­ing in Brunswick.  

The old bank was a challenging project with this its 5 storey height and retention gof the old street frontage.  Limited access from the rear ensured this project was going to be a challenge to build.

A con­cep­tu­al response to a series of unusu­al site con­di­tions as a result of a divi­sion to a her­itage estate in the Ivan­hoe.   The exist­ing dou­ble-storey mason­ry struc­ture is inte­gral­ly linked to the mod­ern archi­tec­tur­al addi­tion, a ver­ti­cal rup­ture has been intro­duced, expressed as an unfin­ished brick wall, part­ing old and new.  

This col­lec­tion of three large town­hous­es appears as two, as the sub­tle rak­ing roof forms echo the tiled pitch­es on sur­round­ing hous­es, allow­ing the dense forms to sit com­fort­ably behind gen­er­ous gar­dens and with­in the old street scape. 

Linden was a project that really tested the ability for concrete to show its many faces on the one project.  Angled, textured, jack hammered, stacked and smooth, we hand finished all precast and in-situ walls ourselves.