FEATURED PROJECT

11 Champions Cres, Brookwater

One curved stone wall. One square home.

THE PROJECT

A square Brookwater home, organised around one curved wall.

11 Champions Crescent is the second Merbain home on this Brookwater crescent. A two storey contemporary on a flat block. Dark vertical cladding to the upper box, white render to the ground floor, a black slab door behind a glass pivot, and a deep recessed entry portico tucked under the upper level.

The home is rectilinear from every angle except one. A curved column of split face stacked stone wraps the entry corner, runs floor to second storey, and pulls the eye away from the boxes either side. The rest of the home stays square. The stone does the architectural work.

Inside, the same stone wraps a feature wall in the lounge with a linear gas fire and a recessed TV. Outside, the same form sits at the rear alfresco as a stone-clad fireplace pier. One material, three positions. The home is held together by a single design move, repeated where it counts.

THE LIVING

A void with a chandelier you read from the kerb.

The split face stacked stone that wraps the entry runs through the home as a feature language. A full height wall in the lounge holds a wall-mounted television and a linear gas fire box, framed by a built-in window seat to one side and French doors to the other.

Outside under the alfresco, the same stone forms a fireplace pier with a matching linear fire box. The cladding is consistent. The mortar joint detail is consistent. The home has one stone story and tells it three times, indoors and out.

THE LIVING

A void with a chandelier you read from the kerb.

The entry is set behind a tall black framed picture window. Inside it sits a suspended ring chandelier on a single rosette, dropping multiple LED rings into a double height void above the staircase. From the street at night you read the chandelier through the window before you read the door.

The portico itself is dark. Black timber wall, black ceiling, glass pivot door framed in black, and a vertical strip light along one wall. The dark frame makes the chandelier glow. Walk in and the void opens into a polished interior held together by engineered timber floors.

WHAT MAKES THIS HOME

One material, holding the home together.

01

The Curved Stone Column

A floor-to-second-storey curved column of white split face stacked stone, wrapping the entry corner and pulling the architecture away from the boxes either side. The signature piece of the home from the kerb. Curved stonework reads as one piece because the joint setting was held to the radius across every course.

02

The Curved Stone Column

A floor-to-second-storey curved column of white split face stacked stone, wrapping the entry corner and pulling the architecture away from the boxes either side. The signature piece of the home from the kerb. Curved stonework reads as one piece because the joint setting was held to the radius across every course.

03

The Curved Stone Column

A floor-to-second-storey curved column of white split face stacked stone, wrapping the entry corner and pulling the architecture away from the boxes either side. The signature piece of the home from the kerb. Curved stonework reads as one piece because the joint setting was held to the radius across every course.

04

The Curved Stone Column

A floor-to-second-storey curved column of white split face stacked stone, wrapping the entry corner and pulling the architecture away from the boxes either side. The signature piece of the home from the kerb. Curved stonework reads as one piece because the joint setting was held to the radius across every course.

05

The Curved Stone Column

A floor-to-second-storey curved column of white split face stacked stone, wrapping the entry corner and pulling the architecture away from the boxes either side. The signature piece of the home from the kerb. Curved stonework reads as one piece because the joint setting was held to the radius across every course.

06

The Curved Stone Column

A floor-to-second-storey curved column of white split face stacked stone, wrapping the entry corner and pulling the architecture away from the boxes either side. The signature piece of the home from the kerb. Curved stonework reads as one piece because the joint setting was held to the radius across every course.