A dual occupancy home designed for a downsizing family, with consideration for the trees that offered shade, hiding spaces, and Autumn leaves for their children to play amongst, years ago.
We were able to save the trees – memories – by integrating them into our design.
Though the building itself would become shared, we achieved the illusion of a single house by using the slope of the land to our advantage and introducing a variety of materials and heights to the façade.
Photography: Michael Kai
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Evan Kamvissis Architecture is a boutique firm driven by creativity, culture, and context. Underpinned by these guiding principles, Evan designs homes that draw on their natural and urban surroundings yet intimately reflect the lives of the people within them.
COLLABORATIVE, CONSIDERED DESIGN
Design has always been an integral part of Evan’s life. Growing up in the country, he experienced a humble upbringing framed by inspiring architecture, living in a home designed around the sun — by an architect he admired, respected, and would later work alongside. This light and love-filled house in rural Victoria became a space of joy, play, and freedom to explore his creativity — the beginning of his adoration for design and its intrinsic relationship with the people who interact with it.
WHEN BUILT AND NATURAL ENVIRONMENTS COLLIDE
Evan works with nature’s elements to enhance the built form. Every detail is considered — from the way the light falls, the reflections and shadows it casts, to how the materials absorb or distribute warmth, to the delicate relationship between manmade buildings and the natural environment beyond their walls. To Evan, great architecture is about balance. It’s about relationships. It’s about the people who live, work, and flourish within the spaces he designs.
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