Houses Australia - April 2018

Architect

Simon Pendal Architect

+61 424 164 661

[email protected]

simonpendal.com

Project team

Rebecca Angus, Simon Pendal

Builder

Don Gavin Developments

Consultants

Structural engineer:

Capital House Australasia

Quantity surveyor:

Peacock Quantity Surveying

Light is drilled deep inside through multiple
floors, cracks and fissures, giving every room
a different atmosphere based on its role,
location, scale, proportion, colouration,
tone and level of furnishing. Its stupendous
density can only be experienced through
visitation. And so it was that we started to
look for an interior of sequences, internal
vistas, of top light, darkness, density
and quiet complexity. Eduardo Chillida’s
unrealized project at Tindaya Mountain in
Spain was also present in our thinking as
we spent nights and weekends drawing.
Since that time, my practice has
built expertise in making similar small
projects for which our house continues
to play a foundational role. In 2016 I

completed a practice-based PhD at RMIT

University, which drew significantly upon

the knowledge embedded in this house as

well as another ten or twelve of our most

relevant projects. Through this process

I came to describe precisely how an

atmospheric quality arises in our work. This

continues on a daily basis when working

with generous and trusting clients who

share similar interests.

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