We’d like to welcome Jack May to the Room11 team in Melbourne.
Check out Jack’s project which won an award for the 2009 Australian Institute of Architects - Victorian Chapter Student Design Competition
Aaron Roberts from Room11 will be appearing on RRR’s The Architects this tuesday between 7 - 8pm 102.7FM
The Architects is a weekly discussion show talking about Architecture, Sustainability and Design.
Further development of the IP2100 scheme is ongoing - We’ll be adding to this website in the future to document progress and further extend the research. TEAM: Scott Lloyd, room11, and Katrina Stoll
Niels Oeltjen (aka Nails) will be exhibiting in our Melbourne studio during May.
All are welcome to join us on the 6th of May from 6pm to admire the mans works and enjoy a cold drink or two. Spread the word.
Allens Rivulet House featured on one of our favourite blogs - archdaily
Aaron Roberts will be speaking at the next PROCESS architecture forum.
THEME:
“What’s on your desk? -
Design rarely happens in a vacuum, yet the serendipitous moments of encounter that inspire design solutions are often downplayed. This month at Process we invite three young practices to share a snapshot of their design practice, presenting current projects, sketch designs, competition entries, side concerns, favoured books, ticket stubs and whatever else is on their desks.”
Monday April 12, 6.00pm for a 6.30pm start
Loop Bar, Meyers Place, Melbourne
Organised by the creators of the great POST magazine -
AR 114 ( April / May 2010 ) includes an article by Michael Roper on room11.
We’re excited to be selected as one of the 17 teams to exhibit in the Australian Pavilion at this year’s Venice Biennale.
See more and read about our submission
RAIA : Now and When : Australian Pavilion
Images of the other submissions
TEAM:
Scott Lloyd, room11, and Katrina Stoll
Support / Research team:
Lara van den Berg (Sustainability Programs Manager, Hydro Tasmania) Climate Futures Tasmania (Antarctic Climate and Ecosystems - CRC)
Eben Simmons - Umow Lai - www.umowlai.com.au
Megan Baynes (Urban designer)
James Newitt (Artist - PHD fine arts UTAS)
Jesse Shipway (PHD Cultural studies /English – UTAS)
Allen Kearns (Deputy Chief, CSIRO Sustainable Ecosystems)
Dr Arko Lucieer (lecturer and researcher in GIS and remote sensing in the Centre for Spatial Information Science : UTAS)
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH
Adam Walker Film
Read some thoughts on recent projects from room11 in the latest issue of monument and the full article online here
Nearing completion - a few more shots here
We are currently working on design development of a medical centre in the northern suburbs of Hobart.
More updates coming soon. Further images
See the latest AFAR collaboration at Penthouse Mouse for one more week only!
PHM is a temporary fashion, art and event space which is now in its fourth year. It is located in a disused space and allows Australian labels to do something outside the traditional retail environment whilst also bringing together a talented array of designers, artists and creatives under one roof. A two-week plethora of shopping, fashion shows, art, live fashion shoots, runway shows, parties not to be missed. PHM is part of the L’Oréal Melbourne Fashion Festival Cultural Program. Open from 11 - 9pm Daily 6th - 19th March 2010. AFAR collaboration ( Room11 + Alexi Freeman ) AFAR#3 investigates Freeman’s latest seasonal motif, separating layers to form a topography / field of varying density and complexity, shifting with viewer orientation. See more photos
James wilson will present ideas and questions posed by the recent speculative collaboration between Scott Lloyd, Katrina Stoll and Room11 , shortlisted for Stage 2 of the ‘NOW + WHEN Australian Urbanism’ exhibition in Venice 2010.
Either through the built or in conversation, architectural practice in Tasmania relies to a great degree upon an engagement with the conditions that are embedded in this island’s topography. This year the Triennial Tasmanian Architectural Narratives Weekend Away is being held at Murrayfield, on Bruny Island from the 12-14 March 2010.
Set against a magnificent shifting coastal fringe, Murrayfield is witness to a potent history. The property is recognized as Truganini’s country and marks the location where George Augustus Robinson convinced Bruny Island’s ‘friendly aborigines’ to accompany him north to secure the trust of the Oyster Bay and North East tribes. While war was being waged in the bush, Robinson’s pact with Truganini gave momentum to the colonial intent of eradicating an indigenous presence in Van Diemen’s Land.
To a great degree, Murrayfield still holds memories of that moment.
This year Murrayfield will host us in conversation with Tasmania’s indigenous community, including Indigenous Campaigner for Amnesty International and current Chair of the National Reference Group for Repatriation of Australian Indigenous Remains, Rodney Dillon, renowned and respected Heidegger scholar and ‘place’ Philosopher Professor Jeff Malpas, Internationally lauded Melbourne-based Architect John Wardle, and arguably two of Australia’s finest practitioners and educators, Australian Institute of Architects Gold Medalists – Brit Andresen and Richard Leplastrier.
Traditional open dialogue is encouraged with a focus on the voice of next generation practitioners, including Masters Students from the University of Tasmania who will also present several spatial ‘provocations’ as a means of engaging further with the setting that the Murrayfield estate provides.
Our time together will be supplemented with Bruny Island’s finest produce, and prepared by Tasmanian chef Amy Currant.
We’re excited to support a rooftop cinema event organised by Paula Silva and Jude Abell.
Come relax on our roof deck in bean bags and watch some classic film.
Entry to the Level 5 studio is half way along the mall on the south side.
Note that the Mall level doors will close at 8.15pm
Room11 have received a special mention in last years AA Prize for Unbuilt work.
See the competition results here - and download our entry as a PDF
The project is published with the other selected works in the January issue of Architecture Australia.
Room11 + Scott Lloyd + team have been short-listed to prepare and present a developed proposal for Stage 2 of the ‘NOW + WHEN Australian Urbanism’ exhibition in Venice next year.
Expressions of interest were sought for the design of a future Australian city 2050 + that explores the creative potential of architecture, addressing the fundamental problems of Australian Urbanism. How will our ocean-urban interfaces change, how will our sprawl be densified, will our historic overlay precincts survive densification, how will the role of our cities develop in the matrix of world urbanism.
The abstract: ( to be developed and refined during stage 2 )
ISLAND PROPOSITION 2100
Tasmania has an urban and cultural condition of divisions, between the island and the mainland, between industry and
wilderness, protection and utilisation. In opposition to this condition the built environment offers an intimate experiential connection to wilderness, via the surrounding ocean and diverse topography.
IP2100 consolidates previous tenuous links via a hi-speed transit and infrastructure spine connecting the mainland with
the Island‘s North West city conglomerate and the port City of Hobart. No longer acting as a rogue, insular colonial outpost, the island becomes interconnected with the broader Australian position; multicultural and inclusive.
The transit spine supplies energy (ideally situated to harness wind and wave energy) and water to the mainland exposing
and challenging the islands idiosyncratic urban condition. Urbanism is thus defined as a connective infrastructure containing and channelling flows of information, energy, and capital.
What problems and opportunities are present within the dichotomies of this future Tasmanian condition? What are the ramifications of connecting that which is disconnected?
FULL TEAM
Lead:
Room11 + Scott Lloyd
Katrina Stoll (B.A Cultural Anthropology Cornell Unversity + M.Arch. Columbia University)
Co-editor: Cities of Change: Transformation Strategies for Urban Territories in the 21st Century
Research / support:
Allen Kearns (Deputy Chief, CSIRO Sustainable Ecosystems)
Dr Arko Lucieer (lecturer and researcher in GIS and remote sensing in the Centre for Spatial Information Science : UTAS)
Lara van den Berg (Sustainability Programs Manager, Hydro Tasmania) Climate Futures for Tasmania (Antarctic Climate and Ecosystems - CRC)
Eben Simmons (Umow Lai - www.umowlai.com.au
Megan Baynes (Urban designer)
James Newitt (Artist - PHD fine arts UTAS)
Jesse Shipway (PHD Cultural studies /English – UTAS)
southsouthwest - Graphic design / visual communications
ETH university, Zurich
Room11 feature in the latest issue of HOUSES magazine. Helen Norrie writes about the Allens Rivulet House 2 project with photos by Benjamin Hosking.
Check out the latest project REBRAND TASMANIA.COM from the design team at SouthSouthWest exploring new possibilities for the State logo for Tasmania. Add your comments and ideas.
Another fast paced Art / Design / Architecture slide fest at Room11.
As Part of the Hobart Fringe Festival 2009 :
PECHA KUCHA NIGHT : HOBART : VOL 4 - Kicks of this Wednesday : 18th of November at 7pm
Special thanks to Apply Creative for the designing the poster
Entry : $5
Drinks : Yes - out on the roof deck - balmy
Directions : google map
Level 5 , 50 Elizabeth street, Hobart
Take the stairs down into Papillon, go through the doors at the end of the hall - take the elevator to the top floor.
Container for living 2009 catalogue is now available for download. Showing just a few of the endless possibilities utilising shipping containers for housing, the catalogue further develops ideas tested and displayed during Design Island 2009.
DOWNLOAD THE CATALOGUE
Room11 feature in this new book published by Collins Design (English), and LOFT publications (Spanish).
Exploring the world of eco-friendly architecture, New Green Homes showcases 25 projects worldwide, with a special focus on the United States and Australia. With a wealth of sustainable designs, this book is a must-have for architects and homeowners alike.
For more information see the book at HarperCollins
Room11 Melbourne, 105 Victoria St, Fitzroy , Victoria , 3065 - phone: 03 8669 1789
Thomas Bailey and Megan Baynes designed and built this house for themselves in Fern Tree upon the eastern slopes of Mount Wellington high above Hobart. The siting is mindful of its context; positioned close to and perpendicular to the curvilinear Huon Road. The house, on a vacant lot between established houses and gardens, is defensive and diagrammatic.
Tucked carefully between cadastral constraints and a magnificent birch tree, the footprint has been kept deliberately small. The dwelling is stacked across two levels which step to match the undulating terrain.
It’s just a box. A clean volume with two exceptions; a service core and an entry air-lock.
The house is designed to be intensely private. Apertures are purposefully positioned to create pure window types opening to either garden, sky or shadow. Polycarbonate cladding on the eastern and western facades render luminous shadow walls which enable the house to be concurrently light and contained. SEE MORE
Positioned on a previously cleared site, with views towards Tasman Island and the Southern Ocean beyond, this project takes the farmhouse typology and transforms it into a hybrid courtyard house. Visitors enter through a covered threshold, experiencing views into the treed courtyard and the sea beyond, before venturing into the main living space where the full panorama unfolds. Three gable roof extrusions define functions within, each with particular relationships to the courtyard and specific views to the surrounds. The extruded form pushes beyond the building envelope providing covered outdoor living spaces. SEE MORE
UPDATED PHOTOS
The client wish for the kitchen to be the heart of the home generated the internal layout. The house revolves around this heart and eventually lifts to peer over the first level ring. Voids make the heart visible from most spaces within the house. The compact plan is made to feel larger employing these voids. Internal and external spaces are blurred at one extreme, and highly contained at others. SEE MORE
An exacting house for exacting clients - The longley home is a slim black clad building tucked beneath the apex of a ridge on an expansive rural site in Lower Longley. From the interior to the north the curve line of the oposing ridge is framed. This line eventually makes its way towards the Derwent Estury’s Northwest Bay to the East. The distant view of Northwest Bay and surrounding farmland is framed with the entire building from the Eastern extent of the home. SEE MORE
Extruding a gable volume, the house is sited on the edge of a shallow rural saddle. This shallow curvature opens up and flattens to expose distant views of the valley and the bay to the east. The house directs itself to the valley, timber screens continuing the extruded form to create covered outdoor areas, protecting the house from excessive solar gain. Courtyards between pavilions offer focused views to the east, and again provide covered outdoor areas with their own micro climates and associated green spaces. READ MORE
Design of this courtyard house is currently under development. The project is sited on a very small parcel of land overlooking Opossum Bay with views to the distant Mt Wellington. Site constraints require acquisition of roof top spaces for further outdoor living spaces, culminating in an observation tower and bath to take in the panorama. SEE MORE
This project maximises a sense of volume within a small plan by employing multiple voids throughout the house. Each room has an adjacent, private “outside room” allowing pockets of vegetation to become part of the “interior” of the house. Except for the entry glazing, all openings into the building are accompanied by a built in seat, allowing the building to act like an extended piece of furniture. SEE MORE
Huge thanks to Ben Hosking who made several trips to Tasmania through inclement weather to shoot both the Allens Rivulet House and the Little Big House. Ben understood the buildings from the outset and managed to capture them well under difficult conditions. check out his website HERE.
You can see the shoots for these two buildings here ; Allens Rivulet House + Little Big House.
Nestled in the foothills of Mt Wellington this container house winds along the contour, two wings meeting in a curved atrium. Concept design is ongoing. SEE MORE
Featured in this months Monument Magazine’s “Site Unseen” the project is a renovation and expansion of an existing 70s apartment block. Expanding the existing envelope, adding a cantilevered penthouse and wrapping the entire building in a patterned metal mesh. Light wells and private outdoor spaces pepper the building throughout. READ MORE
This project was an exercise in maximising the density of housing on a small suburban site without sacrificing liveability. Three double storey units are staggered in a linear fashion with an internal courtyard allowing light into the middle unit. Playful colouring and formal separation of the two levels breakdown the massing of the units allowing the building to sit comfortably in its low rise setting. SEE MORE
Room11 feature in this new collection of houses published by Braun.
Product Description
A main task for architects has always been the planning of private residences, commissioned by the future occupants or by clients seeking the extraordinary. The design of houses has the potential to provide unique opportunities for architects to develop and realize unusual ideas and innovative solutions for the outer appearance of the building, the integration in the surroundings, the organization of the interior spaces as well as the design of the rooms. This 512 page volume of the series Collection features around 200 houses from all parts of the world ? by famous architects as well as the stars of the future unknown so far focusing on the variety of possibilities for creating private residences. Each project is featured by comprehensive texts in English, German and French, sketches, floor plans and drawings as well as high-quality photographs.
“These austere structures highlight the drama of the landscape”, writes Stephen Crafti.
John Anchor reviews MODv2.0 from its display as part of Design Island 2009.
Australia defines itself by the sunburnt country and golden beaches of its warmer, northern parts - so much so that we often forget it is a country of contrasts as well as extremes. Helen Norrie and Geoff Clark explore the development of a regional Australian architecture that turns the idea of a building “out of the sun and in the wind” on its head. - THE TASMANIAN VERANDAH
Aaron Roberts is currently Tutoring part-time at Melbourne University
Room11 are soon to open their Melbourne studio in conjunction with SouthSouthWest - contacts and photos updated soon
Community housing project currently under development. SEE MORE
A compact courtyard house with views out towards Cremorne point and the bay. Grounded via a masonry plinth, the upper storey timber sleeve wraps around an inner deck providing outdoor shelter from the summer and winter extremities.
SEE MORE
The latest AFAR installation; Aaron Roberts ( room11 ) and Fashion Designer Alexi Freeman , appeared in the foyer of the MELBOURNE SPRING FASHION WEEK 2009.
Titles “Death Cloud”, the project dissects and layers the plaid from Freeman’s S/S 09-10 collection, applying it to a topographical re-hash of the original flapper motif from AFAR 1. Cad models are brought to life using handcrafted stencil techniques and hours of hand cut… sticky tape! The extrusion and layering of the pattern allows for a build up of complexity, a volumetric interplay of light, shadow and pattern. SEE PHOTOS OF THE PROJECT HERE
We are launching the Container for living catalogue very soon, here’s a few teaser images….
Aaron Roberts ( room11 ) and Fashion Designer Alexi Freeman team up for their second installation as part of the State of Design Festival in Melbourne this week, continuing their experiments into the re-interpretation of Freeman’s clothing design and pattern making. The AFAR 2 project disects and layers the plaid from Freeman’s S/S 09-10 collection, applying it to a topographical re-hash of the original flapper motif from AFAR 1. Cad models are brought to life using handcrafted stencil techniques and… sticky tape! The extrusion and layering of the pattern allows for a build up of complexity, a volumetric interplay of light, shadow and pattern. The hope is that these ongoing investigations will inform and influence future work in their respective disciplines. More images
Since the 1970s Australian houses on average have doubled in size whilst halving the
number of occupants. The resulting size increase has caused significant rises in energy
and material consumption. We must consider smaller, less destructive systems of housing.
We must reduce the amount of material we use and recycle where we can. This change
should not mean sacrifices in design quality or aesthetics. Containers look great!
MODV2.0 explores reductions in cost, re-use of materials and smaller more flexible
housing solutions.
Fill wasted spaces in our cities. Prefabricate and build houses in days not months.
Consider your impact on the environment. Live closer to the city on smaller parcels of land.
Catch the bus. Cycle to work. Live in a container, forget its previous life on the high sea.
No longer a container for shipping stuff in, a container for living, a container of experience,
a container of fun.
Room11 to exhibit in upcoming design island 2009 event : Architecture beyond Style + Fashion
Curated by Karryn Irwin, Helen Norrie, Dean Baird, Matthew Hinds, Fred Ward and Judith Abell, with research assistance by 5th year Architecture Students from the University of Tasmania.
Architecture beyond Style + Fashion explores the creative dialogue between the architect and the client. Showcasing recent projects from a number of Tasmanian architectural practises, the exhibition unearths the complex layering of client brief, architectural concept, ideas and site response within built form.
3 - 10 May: 10am - 5pm
Commissariant Store, Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, $0 Macquarie St, Hobart
click on the images below for more of each project
FERN TREE HOUSE : CONSTRUCTION PHOTOS
ALLENS RIVULET 2 : CONSTRUCTION PHOTOS
Here’s a few shots of our new space….click below for more.
See our new front end website and download our updated portfolio and capabilities pdf
A BIG thanks to SouthsouthWest for developing our new ID. They were a pleasure to work with and we highly reccommend them. Check out the rest of the design and their other great projects on their website.
Room11 recently teamed up with HBV architects to enter a competition to design the House of Arts and Culture building for Beirut, Lebannon.
Click below for more images and to download the full submission in PDF format
Thats right! PKN Hobart volume 3 will be hosted at room11’s new rooftop studio. Weather pending we’ll have it on our roof-deck looking out over the city and Mt Wellington.
As part of the Lorreal Melbourne Fashion Festival 2009, Aaron Roberts from Room11 collaborates with Alexi Freeman Fashion Designer to produce a pop up store for his Criss Cross Collection 09.
Exploring this years LMFF theme of cause / effect ,the project will explore production methods of pattern making and possible volumetric outcomes when related to the field of Architecture. Via a topographical extrusion of Freemans’ dress patterns, spatial constructs for the Pop up store will be created.
For Images of the finished installation click below.
As part of design island 2009, room11 have extended their original mod design into the realm of containers. This year we’re building a prototype to be situated at Salamanca place from the 1st - 8th of May 2009. Come and visit to see the array of different design possibilities and check out the inside of a single module.
Click below for more images
Kingston and Taroona Houses to feature in new publication by BRAUN.
This new book series: “Collection” will feature on 512-pages, 175 of the
best of contemporary houses architecture of today – by famous architects
as well as new and emerging architects – focusing on the variety
of possibilities for creating private residences. Each project is featured
either on two or four pages with comprehensive texts in English, German
and French, sketches, floor plans and drawings as well as high-quality
photographs. Publication Date : March 2009
room11 to feature in “Dream Green Houses”, focused on the sustainable design of new houses around the world. Published and distributed worldwide by Loft Publications. Available 2009.
kingston house featured in this issue.
room11’s clifton beach house model is to be included in the Australian Pavilion as part of :
Abundant Australia
300 ‘architectural artefacts’ and a kaleidoscope of immersive projections of extraordinary, eccentric and eclectic buildings showcase Australia’s abundant architectural diversity at the 11th International Architecture Exhibition, Venice.
READ MORE HERE
Friday 22 August 2008 6PM
Australian Institute of Architects
19a Hunter Street
room11 presented at Pecha Kucha TOKYO! visit the Pecha Kucha website
kingston house appears on wallpaper.com
READ THE ARTICLE ONLINE HERE
