Housing Hobart

Set in the heart of Hobart this well appointed studio is an opportunity not to be missed!

Comprising of unique architectural features, this renovators delight is ripe for  redevelopment with abundant opportunities for expansion or infill for investment or family living.

A fantastic offering for those wishing to explore alternative forms of affordable living, including rightsizing, co-living, or investment opportunities for secondary income streams via subletting for long or short term tenants.

Housing Hobart

Marcus Daminato, Rivers Edge Rivers Edge House

Architect: Stuart Tanner
Location: Sandy Bay, Tasmania

This task required our class to analyse an architectural site within Tasmania and understand the thresholds, design reasoning and layouts of our dwellings. Doing this analysis would gain a clearer perspective of the dwelling development within Tasmania.

Through diagrams and collages I focused on the Rivers Edge House along Sandy Bay. Sandy Bay along the South of Hobart with steep topography with spectacular scenic views and atmosphere. The collage above shows the materiality used and the journey (left to right) through the building which starts off private and then to an open floor layout which gradually shows glimpses of the view until you get to the very back of the building which exposes Tasmania’s river to the with open curtain wall glazing.

What the view of this site showed me was that along this area and any area with a sloping leverage to a scenic view these dwelling focus on the back of the building being the main part while the front of these buildings is normally disconnected from street view for privacy purposes create a space which the surrounding environment surrounds you. Also open space within these areas open the amenity of these functions and the use of different materials is the sublime separation of these functions of the open space.

Lucy Hammon, Mt Pleasant

Djula Nusevic, The Greenhouse Collage

Illia Ghandahary, Trial Bay House

Naila Salcin, Little Big House

Architect: Room11 Architects
Location: Fern Tree, Tasmania

The Little Big House is located upon the eastern slopes of Mount Wellington, high above Hobart. The house, on a vacant lot between established houses and gardens, is defensive and diagrammatic, where it is tucked carefully between cadastral constraints. Due to the footprint being kept deliberately small, Room11 Architects intended to create an interior space that appears dramatically larger than what it first may suggest – which is what I aimed to demonstrate through my collage.

Fern Tree can be accused of being dark, cold, and claustrophobic in the winter months so for happy living in such a place the house had to be light, warm and open – where the architects achieved this through creating framed views towards the sky in the simple, light interior.

The Little Big House is clad in vertical unfinished timber continuing traditions of local vernacular building in Southern Tasmania – where this selected material is also depicted within the diagram. The front door entry is set back and this timber remains golden in contrast to the remaining façade which has silvered with time.