Black House
By Mitsuori Architects
This residential project was designed to extend and transform a conservative heritage home in inner suburban Melbourne into a dynamic space for a young family. Our challenge was to create an exciting yet functional family home that reflected our client’s preference for a sleek design aesthetic and love of the colour black.
Many Birds
Can a family home be sleek and minimal? Absolutely. This project showed us that designing an architectural home for a family is about solving many, often opposing, design challenges by making a series of simple yet well considered moves.
Our clients desired a light filled family living zone that would become the heart of their home. They valued strong connections between the spaces, views to the garden and city, and well considered storage that would allow things to be packed away and spaces easily maintained.
Our design revolves around a double height void that brings light into virtually every space in the new addition. Thoughtful planning combined with bold use of materials, textures and glass are used to expand the views through each space and create a sense of volume and spaciousness. This void physically and visually connects the main living, kitchen and dining room to an open first floor landing, main bedroom, terrace and study area.
Essential Black
2018 Trends International Design Award for Best Australian Architect Designed Kitchen
Our client loved the idea of incorporating black into their kitchen. We loved the idea of exploring black as a way of creating a dramatic backdrop for the presentation of feature elements and objects – a perpetual blank canvas. The result was a singular black kitchen wall incorporating all the cabinetry, appliances, benchtops and splashbacks. In front of the ‘canvas’ a custom designed marble & timber island bench is designed as a communal gathering space within the kitchen. To the side, a wall of timber conceals an appliance bay, fridges, pantry storage, and access through to a utility room with an external service entrance.
Beautiful, functional and in every way a family home.
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Mitsuori Architects is a design led practice focused on the creation of enduring and innovative architecture that is uniquely reflective of its place, environment and the people that inhabit it.
Founded in 2008 by Matthew Murfett & Melissa Lim, our practice directors bring together large-scale project experience and technical expertise with the personalised service and attention to detail of a small boutique design practice. Both have worked with world renowned architectural practices on major cultural, commercial, residential and interior design projects in Australia, UK, Europe and the USA. Their departure from iconic city scale projects was inspired by a desire to explore the craft of architecture on a personal scale, and create buildings that are respectful of the past, reflective of the present and robust for the future.
At its core we believe the design process is a journey of discovery, translation and creation. Ours is a collaborative journey shared openly with our clients, design team, specialist fabricators and builders. We focus on producing well designed and executed architectural outcomes delivered by an experienced and cohesive team.
We believe environmentally and socially sustainable design are fundamental to the design of buildings and urban spaces. From the outset, these values influence site response, building orientation/configuration, selection of products, materials and technologies, and ultimately the technical resolution of structure and envelope.
At Mitsuori, we celebrate how architecture can change our experience of a place and influence how we shape our environment.
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