The recently completed project at 20 Dalley Avenue, Vaucluse, has interpreted design challenges as architectural opportunities to create a unique home which is forged on a harmonious dichotomy of solidity and openness. The finished product is highly responsive to the street’s context, while providing its residents with their forever home with ample space to host their children and grandchildren.
Working with an exposed corner site, the houses across the road benefiting from view corridors through the site, some even to the Harbour Bridge, the build presented a myriad of design challenges from the outset. The resulting home is strategically laid out in two distinct parts, orienting itself to provide much-needed privacy, as well as opening out to significant views of Sydney Harbour. The entry lobby turns a need for privacy into a unique creative possibility, giving MHNDU an unusual opportunity to play on an internalized architecture, engaging with the need for solidity with the use of concrete while maintaining ample sources of light. Separated by a skylit staircase which highlights an explicit juxtaposition, the home’s open plan living quarters prioritize panoramic views to Sydney Harbour.
The home’s interior and exterior presents as a highly crafted blend of straight lines and curves, in the form of columns, curved walls and circular skylights, each of which is selected purposefully to optimise views, space and serenity. The inclusion of curvature of form here aids in creating an experiential sense of placidity, as well as grandiosity, within the home, the balance of which evokes a feeling of both aesthetic distinction and homely comfort.
The materiality selections keep to a natural palette of concrete and stone finishes, limiting painted surfaces to pay homage to, rather than compete with, the natural harbour setting. Externally, shiplap timber cladding extends the home’s unique design, resulting in a blending of timber textures which provide a backdrop to the landscaping which will add further privacy and significant organic softening to the exterior over time.
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MHNDU is a Sydney architectural collective dedicated to creating timeless spaces which cater to modern sensibilities. Dedicated to our craft for over twenty-five years, our ethos is unwavering: to cultivate experiential beauty in built form.
All of our projects are a physical testament to our fundamental philosophy of respecting the nuances of the architectural artform, catering to our clients’ needs for a unification of residential liveability and luxuriousness.
MHNDU represents the holistic union of principals Brian Meyerson, Kevin Ng, Liam Hancock and Tanya Awadallah. Together with their talented team, they fuse their experience, dedication to design creativity and strategic architectural visions with the ultimate goal of cultivating a legacy of quality, enduring and sustainable buildings.
MHNDU has established a strong reputation in our industry based on our unique blend of technical excellence, commercial acumen and forward-thinking design sensibility. We have cultivated a timeless portfolio of over a hundred works specialising in developments ranging from bespoke houses and small to medium size multi-residential projects to large scale urban renewal projects within the Eastern Suburbs and Greater Sydney area. Our projects are characterised by their confident, modernist statements tempered with an intimate knowledge of local climate, lifestyle and culture.
At MHNDU we understand that the development approvals process is one of the most challenging and daunting prospects for our clients. We have built our name on our ability to engage and mediate the processes involved between clients, council, neighbours and major stakeholders. We assist our clients’ assessment of their site’s development potential through feasibility and early concept design studies for a wide range of projects. We assess the potential for bonus floor space via voluntary planning agreements, affordable housing schemes and exceptions to the planning controls to increase the yield of our client’s sites.
We are proudly affiliated with interior design studio Lawless & Meyerson, experts in intentionally cultivating interior spaces which complement the architectural concept and elevate their client’s experiential sense of home. Headed by interior designer Jo Lawless, Lawless & Meyerson have collaborated with MHNDU on a range of multi award-winning projects, building on a wealth of experience and style of relaxed sophistication. From high-end bespoke homes to luxury apartments, each collaboration is treated individually and holistically from the inside out: a seamless blend of architectural expression and refined interiors.
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