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Images- Northern Suburbs The Ball-Eastaway House |
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architect |
Glenn Murcutt |
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location |
Halcrows Road Glenorie |
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date |
1982 |
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style |
Late 20th-Century Structuralist |
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construction |
steel frame, glass |
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type |
House |
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| Designed by the Pritzker Prize-winning architect Glenn Murcutt, the Ball-Eastaway house is an artist's retreat nestled in an arid forest. The curved roof prevents dry leaves from settling on top. The windows and "meditation decks" are placed to create a sense of seclusion. | |
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| The main structure of the building is supported by steel columns and steel I-beams. By raising the house above the earth, Murcutt protected the dry soil and surrounding trees. | |
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"The Ball-Eastaway House is a long, low, single-story column and beam
platform house entirely constructed in steel with a corrugated curved
roof and timber terraces. It sits poised above the undulating ground
level on its six I-section columns protected from bush fires with
complete coverage from an external sprinkler system. The house was
designed, according to the architect, to provide the minimum
interference with nature and the existing site. A small, open-sided
platform bridge runs from the car parking enclosure to the house itself,
another precarious reminder of the vulnerability of living in the
countryside. Adjacent to the house are two commercial farmyard Dutch
barns, purchased straight out of a catalogue but ingeniously converted
into spacious and waterproof artists' studios." — Dennis Sharp.
Twentieth Century Architecture: a Visual History. p378.
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