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JARtB House

Location

Toorak,
Victoria

Photographer

Peter Bennetts

Status

Built - 2020

2022 Archdaily
Building of the Year – Nominee

2021 World Architecture Festival
House & Villa (Urban/Suburban) –
Completed Buildings
Finalist

2020 Master Builders Victoria
Best Custom House over $2m – Winner

2020 DRIVENxDESIGN
Architecture – Residential – Constructed – Gold

2020 IDEA Awards
Residential Single – Shortlisted

2020 IDEA Awards
Residential Decoration – Shortlisted

2020 IDEA Awards
Colour – Shortlisted

 

JARtB House reconnects the abandoned notion that
Art and Architecture are
s e  p   a    r     a      t       e
techne

Part House and part Art Gallery
The synthesis of the two typologies are redefined into
a singular expression
A new hybrid is institutionalised

Art is used to connect, inform and program space
instead of program containing it
Art is not defined as ‘in’ or ‘on’ the building,
the building is the artefact
Architecture and Art cannot separated!

The building no longer seeks to establish
traditional notions of utility,
utility becomes functional residue,
a byproduct

Art moves beyond cultural expression
and becomes architectural syntax
Ornamentation becomes
more than architectural decoration,
more than Venturi’s Decorated Shed or Duck
JARtB House becomes the Alchemy of the
‘Decorated Duck’
expressed in an urban Neo Baroque paradigm

Tension, juxtaposition and opposition
are a central narrative throughout the proposal
which mediates and respond to the site’s eclectic contextual character

Collective individuality is celebrated and exploited

JARtB House’s intervention into its context
becomes a social and cultural act!
It is public art masquerading as a building in a residential setting

The building is a conversation
aggregated into a confluence of interstitial
moments
materials
light
technology
and space
The theatre of visual poetry is the discourse

The house shifts from contrived reason and the
aesthetic assembly of material
into one of feeling and experience
incorporating visual and experiential culture
that evokes the sensors

A controlled chaos of interlocking
geometric forms sculpt the facade
to cultivate theatrical drama

The floating external polychromatic glass facade
penetrates through the concrete plinth to the spaces below

Outside in now Inside
The façade is redefined and internalised
Internal and external spaces are experienced simultaneously
External facades becomes
internal translucent frescos

A two way façade typology emerges

Non spaces of circulation are redefined
Into a delineated linear programmatic ‘strip’,
the ‘strip’ is anointed in pure white (the language of the ‘art gallery’)
traversing the entire length of the site envelope

The art gallery is born

Art becomes the crucible for
phenomenological experience
Double height spaces, interlocking volumes and visual links
are connected and narrated through Art
Art informs architecture and program
Art becomes an architectural element

Art now has utility
JARtB House becomes liveable art

JARtB House

Location

Toorak,
Victoria

Photographer

Peter Bennetts

Status

Built - 2020

2022 Archdaily
Building of the Year – Nominee

2021 World Architecture Festival
House & Villa (Urban/Suburban) –
Completed Buildings
Finalist

2020 Master Builders Victoria
Best Custom House over $2m – Winner

2020 DRIVENxDESIGN
Architecture – Residential – Constructed – Gold

2020 IDEA Awards
Residential Single – Shortlisted

2020 IDEA Awards
Residential Decoration – Shortlisted

2020 IDEA Awards
Colour – Shortlisted

 

JARtB House reconnects the abandoned notion that
Art and Architecture are
s e  p   a    r     a      t       e
techne

Part House and part Art Gallery
The synthesis of the two typologies are redefined into
a singular expression
A new hybrid is institutionalised

Art is used to connect, inform and program space
instead of program containing it
Art is not defined as ‘in’ or ‘on’ the building,
the building is the artefact
Architecture and Art cannot separated!

The building no longer seeks to establish
traditional notions of utility,
utility becomes functional residue,
a byproduct

Art moves beyond cultural expression
and becomes architectural syntax
Ornamentation becomes
more than architectural decoration,
more than Venturi’s Decorated Shed or Duck
JARtB House becomes the Alchemy of the
‘Decorated Duck’
expressed in an urban Neo Baroque paradigm

Tension, juxtaposition and opposition
are a central narrative throughout the proposal
which mediates and respond to the site’s eclectic contextual character

Collective individuality is celebrated and exploited

JARtB House’s intervention into its context
becomes a social and cultural act!
It is public art masquerading as a building in a residential setting

The building is a conversation
aggregated into a confluence of interstitial
moments
materials
light
technology
and space
The theatre of visual poetry is the discourse

The house shifts from contrived reason and the
aesthetic assembly of material
into one of feeling and experience
incorporating visual and experiential culture
that evokes the sensors

A controlled chaos of interlocking
geometric forms sculpt the facade
to cultivate theatrical drama

The floating external polychromatic glass facade
penetrates through the concrete plinth to the spaces below

Outside in now Inside
The façade is redefined and internalised
Internal and external spaces are experienced simultaneously
External facades becomes
internal translucent frescos

A two way façade typology emerges

Non spaces of circulation are redefined
Into a delineated linear programmatic ‘strip’,
the ‘strip’ is anointed in pure white (the language of the ‘art gallery’)
traversing the entire length of the site envelope

The art gallery is born

Art becomes the crucible for
phenomenological experience
Double height spaces, interlocking volumes and visual links
are connected and narrated through Art
Art informs architecture and program
Art becomes an architectural element

Art now has utility
JARtB House becomes liveable art