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Stephen Page: Artistic director of Bungurra dance company

Due to Stephens Aboriginal heritage and large extended family, i wanted to design a weekend home that will keep with in the Aboriginal culture of kingship and welcoming (family, extended family and friends).
To make sure that the house exists as a retreate to the individuels that use it i wanted the house to have the ability to be 'opened' up and 'closed' down depending on the numbers and people using it at the time.
As it is essentially a holiday home i wanted it to have the ability to house many people at one time but I also wanted it to be accomidating when only one or two people decide to use it. So the home can be opened in stages as required.
As Page is commited to translating his Aboriginal roots in a contemporary manner, I hope this home communicates the same thing.

IDEAS:

Spaces that face the water and catch the views are communal (living rooms, dinning areas etc.), so the more intimate and personal views from the back of the home needed to correlate to what was happening in those spaces. Areas that are more reflective or personal face the bush land to the rear of the building and offer glimpses through openings.

The idea of the protective wall or apron around the building will lead into and suggest things like materials and inbuilt furniture. The wall will in essence become part of the structure and the more personal junctions or moments.

HOUSE AS A MANIFESTO:

I feel that the house should be lived in a manner that is conducive to family life and a testament to sociability with in the family (and in the case of Stephen Page extended family). I hope my design has developed the idea about how he might live.

By keeping ares separate and letting the home be used in stages, keeping in mind ideas of kingship and opening up the home for others I hope that this adds positively to the homes experience.

MODULE
I am designing a house for Stephen Page. He has one son and a large extended family. Many friends and family also work with him in the Bungarra dance company. I imagined his house would be welcoming for all of these people due to his aboriginal heritage.
To still make the house a relaxing retreat I am investigating that it will consist of its own modules that will fit together in a array of ways and have the ability to be opened up or closed down depending on the individual in the space at the time.
Stephen Page is very committed to translating his aboriginal roots in a contemporary manner, i hope to achieve the same thing in his house design.

SPIRALING:
I like how this image shows an 'apron' like form over the main structure (the more square boxy shapes in the centre). It suggests areas that could be defined into public, private, home, thorough fares and entry points.
This 'apron' could be made of a range of panels that could vary in transparency and materiality.

I like how this form comes down into a ground plane.

PACKING:
by streching and 'packing' my original module this space was created. I zoomed right into the image and could see that this would make an interesting internal space. I like how light & shadow, Solid & void, mass & subtraction are interacting and created.

showing the scale of the image as an internal space

Adding matteriality, high gloss, matt and reflectivity give the space a more interesting finish.

A similar space with no materials

TILIING:
I imagen this is a wall or screen, an element that could add curvature to an other wise liner space. It is interesting that there is a richness created by using only 3 materials.


The revers side of the image

WEAVING:
This is how I started my weaving investigations. From this pattern I can see interesting junctions that remind me of modern Japanes joinery (imagening it made from timber).