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Ceramic Studio Conversion.

ArchiPro Project Summary - A ceramic studio conversion into a flexible retirement retreat featuring bespoke design elements, indoor-outdoor living, and a unique kitchen island, tailored for a well-travelled couple seeking a Melbourne base between their global adventures.

Title:: Ceramic Studio Conversion
Architect:: alsoCAN Architects
Category:: Residential/; Renovations and Extensions

Featuring ceramic pendant lights made by our client, this project was a conversion of her ceramics studio into a retirement retreat.

Designed for a well-travelled couple, intending to continue travelling with extended periods of living overseas, the living room features backlit glass display shelving for their travel treasures. It enables them to rent out their large family home and use this studio in their back yard as their Melbourne pad between trips away.

A small, but flexible space enabling indoor-outdoor living. The kitchen's central island bench is on wheels, with two positions envisaged for it, a central country kitchen table to sit around and prepare food, or pushed across to the bifold window to act as a serving area for an outdoor bar.

The bathroom has corner sliding doors to open up to the bedroom and private garden, away from the second guest room and ensuite bathroom on the other side of the courtyard.

Photography: Jane McDougall

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Invermay, Tasmania

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alsoCAN Architects. alsoCAN To broaden our design skills alsoCAN is a multi-disciplined studio. We keep learning so we can put more design into practice. So far, Architecture, can; Urban Design, can; Web Design, also can. Our architectural practice draws on over 25 years of experience in individually designed houses & larger-scale residential, institutional & commercial projects in Melbourne, Singapore & Brisbane. alsoCAN's architectural designs have been imagined, designed & drawn in 3 dimensions since the beginnings of BIM computer modelling in the 1990s. There is no disconnect between the spatial volumes of the design & the plans, elevations, and sections all in the one 3-D model. For many other architects, this is a new way of thinking.