{"id":913077,"date":"2026-10-02T05:04:14","date_gmt":"2026-10-02T05:04:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/913077\/"},"modified":"2026-10-02T05:04:14","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T05:04:14","slug":"hanslope-house-by-olaver-architecture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/913077\/","title":{"rendered":"Hanslope House by Olaver Architecture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A double-corner block with three street frontages is a rare condition to design for in the inner suburbs of Melbourne, where terraces and narrow laneways abound. In such a scenario, many houses would likely pick a front and turn their back on the rest. In the design of this new home in Alphington, however, Olaver Architecture\u2019s approach has been to engage with the street: landscape softens the boundaries, the front garden is left unfenced, and plants fringe the long side boundary for the benefit of passers-by. Getting there took some negotiation: the practice secured approval for zero setbacks to the side and rear streets, a move that lets the house sit closer to its boundaries and improve the amenity within. Hit-and-miss brick screens and open fencing balance privacy with porosity, providing glimpses of courtyard gardens and occupied rooms from the street. It is a quieter kind of address, one that settles generously into its neighbourhood.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Hit-and-miss brick screens and open fencing balance domestic privacy with access to light and views of the street. Artwork: 'LA series' by Josh Robenstone.\" class=\"['full'] full blur-up lazyload\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/a0f22ae371fd436f15e7da7ee74693e5.jpg\" height=\"546\" width=\"728\"\/><\/p>\n<p>View gallery<\/p>\n<p>The plan is organised around a clear divide: between public and private, living and resting. Two pavilions sit either side of a central corridor, which does more than connect them: it splits the garden in two, giving each pavilion access to the courtyards rather than asking the household to share one backyard for every activity. In the southern courtyard, a pool gives the children a place to be with friends. The northern courtyard holds the entertaining space, close enough for sightlines, far enough that neither gathering intrudes on the other.<\/p>\n<p>That same clarity extends to the home\u2019s future adaptability. It suits a family of four today, but the pavilions can flex to accommodate a parent working from home or grandparents moving in, without the family needing a second address.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"The northern courtyard provides space for entertaining, visually connected to but acoustically separated from the pool.\" class=\"['full'] full blur-up lazyload\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/82d9ee02d7186273625760f23188b46f.jpg\" height=\"620\" width=\"465\"\/><\/p>\n<p>View gallery<\/p>\n<p>The clients arrived at this project already fluent in how they liked to live, having worked with architects before. That fluency shows in the small decisions: in the main living space, for example, a large kitchen island, adjacent dining area and a built-in desk lets the family work, study and cook in the same space \u2013 together, yet each doing their own thing.<\/p>\n<p>The material palette is drawn from close by. Recycled brick, sourced from a demolished factory in the area, gives the house a texture that feels found and grounded in place. Terracotta gabled roofs are a contemporary interpretation of the familiar forms of neighbourhood houses, offering a subtle rather than a subversive evolution of the suburban home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A double-corner block with three street frontages is a rare condition to design for in the inner suburbs&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":913078,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[449,458,459,64,63,460,134],"class_list":["post-913077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-design","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/913077","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=913077"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/913077\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/913078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=913077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=913077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=913077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}