The Naked Architect: Session 5
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Are you looking to renovate or build a new home and have considered using an architect but don’t know where to start?
Supported by the Architects Registration Board of Victoria (ARBV), Open House Melbourne and ArchiTeam are presenting a series of six workshops that will arm you with everything you need to know about commissioning and working with an architect.
These workshops will offer practical guidance, advice and ideas about engaging an architect on a home renovation or new build project.
Using the Open House model of direct experience of good design, The Naked Architect: a guide to commissioning and working with a residential architect is being hosted in six examples of architect designed homes across Melbourne. Not only will you be armed with practical advice and ideas, you will be able to meet clients and their architects to hear an honest account of the process.
Session 5
Theme: Consultants and practicalities
Architect: MODO
MODO (Michael Ong Design Office) is an award winning architecture studio based in Melbourne, Australia.
Their design process is driven by a strong focus on quality and the benefits of good design. A process which is grounded by thoughtful design ideas, rigour and distinctive direction.
Their buildings create spaces to form intimate and highly responsive connections between its landscape, brief and inhabitants.
MODO are excited by the simplicity and beauty found in everyday spaces and objects, and explore concepts that turn the ordinary and banal into rich, textured and expressive.
From large private houses to tiny jewellery pieces, they greet each project with an open mind and our innate sense of design curiosity to realise buildings that are enriching and inspiring to inhabit. MODO always collaborate with our clients brief and budget to realise a thoughtful, unique and complete project.
Project: Open House
A house located in the sought after neighbourhood of Hawthorn East, this alteration and addition to a beautiful existing brick bungalow home is designed to enrich the family's connection with their garden. Open House is a renovation with very sensitive changes; minor ‘extension’to the existing house with more of a focus on modifying the rear of the house to change the relationship between the old house and the garden.
A carefully proportioned set of sliding doors create the new north facing facade, opening up the living space to the garden The project focused on little details that have added a layer of richness and joy to the owners use of the house.
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Open House Melbourne is an independent organisation that fosters public appreciation for architecture and public engagement in the future of our cities. The Open House Melbourne program is expanding to produce a progressive series of events and programs throughout the year that are designed to broaden the groundswell of interest in critical issues about our built environment.