Matilda House- By Templeton Architecture(Case Study)
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For one, context is not necessarily
responding to the building next door, but responding to the needs of the people
and the project. It does not necessarily have to be local in terms of a visual
language, it could be a subtle gesture of connecting the inside and the outside
for one. However, if one goes past this to its historical origins, Matilda -
which means "container for personal things" - also speaks to the
project's extremely personal resonance modeled on the location of the client's
childhood. . The Matilda building, constructed by Harvest Building Pty Ltd,
complements its surroundings while also introducing itself as a long-lasting
and reliable icon. Moving down memory lane, this house was conceived as an
antithesis to the inner-city weekly home and also is supposed to serve both as
a retreat and an immersion.
Design-
The design of the Matilda house speaks of
the sensibilities of the client. While developing this design the architects
got down to little details that made a big difference and one can easily enjoy
the detailed intricacies. Templeton was hired to design a hideaway in the
supposedly isolated granite hills of this northeast Victorian estate. The house
is loaded with emotion because it is nestled where our client spent his early
life.
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With every project whether it is the
windows, gates, openings, or the overall experience, the most important fact is
that it takes on a new approach to the childhood memories that the client once
experienced. The old cottage was taken out and rebuilt with a new house that
extends out parallel to the brook further and embraces the trees that edge each
curve to provide glimpses of each dip. With the rammed earth walls, Australian
hardwood flooring, and wildly divergent touches like the limestone kitchen
splashback, this internal link with the outside world is retained.
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There is a built-in toy box beside the fireplace
that is camouflaged, and there is a lot of storage space so that objects may be
put away. To link everything together, plasterboard-free walls fully revealed
the rammed earth.
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Thus we can say that the making process of the spaces is “nothing
to mass, nothing to a niche”, in some senses, is a dramatic, minimalist abode
with spacious dining and living spaces and little free furniture. “We spent a
lot of time trying to make the furniture look quite integrated,” says Emma.
Material and Construction-
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The urban environment is dynamic,
diverse, and fast-paced which gives us the opportunity to reaccess essential
infrastructure
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The choice of rammed earth as the
principal and core building material has many implications, including
establishing a somber tone for the balance of the house. Set among the native
granite hills, the house adapts to a prolonged, low form that hugs the ground
and stabilizes itself thanks to an innate and deliberately included firmness.
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Australian stone and timber are
combined with steel accents and matt-faced joinery to create the rammed earth
blade walls. Matilda celebrates its location facing out at the environment and
its annual and perennial variations via its generous and slightly trimmed glass
windows as both a comfortable place to hide away from the weather and a
pleasant home to assemble and gather.
No random thoughts, no hasty
thinking enables the functionality, materials, process, finishes, and details
to come together holistically.
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The concept was anchored into the
land's natural contours, generating a sunken courtyard to the east, thanks to
the material's genuine warmth and the depth of its construction.
Rammed earth was adopted due to
its exceptional thermal mass and stunning surroundings because of the region's
frequently severe weather.
Sustainability-
To invent a new future and to
rediscover the past is one gesture but to think about future needs is another
aspect and prevailing on this idea, the Matilda house preaches sustainability
with the wise choice of materials and other efficient design strategies.
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Rammed earth was chosen as the
principal material to cope with two identities of thermal control and young
children to counteract the latter. The need for endurance was a must, thus Emma
says that rammed earth "seemed incredibly fitting" and "had this
natural beauty." "This gave the interior spaces a strong feel for the
young boys, who run up and down the halls with their scooters, and allowed us
to cope with the problem of thermal mass. A wall made of plasterboard just
would not do.
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The Matilda house references a
social memory in its attempt to bring together the childhood of the client by
exploring interventions, mapping them, introspecting, and working on new ways
to engage with the earlier. In this manner, the house itself is a platform within
constructed peripheries attempting to translate simple childhood memories.
References-
2. https://archello.com/project/matilda
3. https://templeton.com.au/project/matilda/
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