patullo house

1995

71 brighton street, richmond

 

Interior volumes are designed with the same concerns as for the exterior. Large open areas allow for ease of visual connections between spaces and simple basic forms - a slice of stair, boxes for cupboards, gently curved benches - maintain a sense of architectural strength within the ordinary demands of the house.   Cupboard units which are designed as for the external form of the building using strong three-dimensional forms of boxes and triangular shapes - are enhanced using colors - bright yellow, black, cyan, olive green, purple and red. FORM The form has developed from platonic shapes - cylinders, boxes, cones and cubes - assembled as if by accident which belies their origins. The ostensible 'functionalism' of the building, as if designed by a Modernist, has been radically modified by an investigation of form where the expression of function is unclear, concealed like a Mannerist building.