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This internal renovation of a William Street House, Castlemaine became an exercise in being creative with circulation space – the solution to simply squash the circulation areas that were chewing up too much space in this compact home. Part of the mechanism for doing this was to orient the interior elements around the refreshed brick hearth. The result is a far more open-feeling and transparent house.
Welcome to the MARA_house, our architect designed, 8* star rated, high performing, fixed price, healthy and sustainable home.
MARA_HOUSE uses a planning system of pre-designed parts with a layout that is completely customizable. This hugely improves cost efficiency and accuracy, and speeds up design and construction time.
Built-in flexibility means we can optimize a layout for better performance. This greatly increases comfort and reduces running costs. It also means we can adapt to your brief and to suit any site.
Set in the rolling granitic cherry and apple-strewn country of north harcourt and segwick, this house is a big barn, a shed with the roof and cathedral ceilings pulled upwards over a mezzanine area inside. Details »
Vincent Street House, Castlemaine is an addition to a small home, we are designing a separate pavilion connected to the house via an entry/bridge. Details »
A renovation and extension of this historical house that has its heritage as an old brick kiln. We’ve been able to incorporate into the new parts of the house some fantastic relics from the days when the kiln was operational – like an old steel dolly and other rustic steel elements. Details »
Metropolitan and Regional Architecture Studio is currently working with a builder in the volume housing market to establish a new show home “The Project Home” Details »
Our feasibility study for this town house development pointed us towards flexibile, high performance, delightful townhouse Details »
MARA Studio presents BEGINNING BECOMING BUILDING, a talk about what is sustainable architecture, as part of the Deakin University Architecture REAL lecture series, Geelong, 6pm Tuesday night, 30 June.
