STUDLEY PARK HOUSE BY MARCH STUDIO

The steep riverine terrain of Studley Park is unique in suburban Melbourne. Largely considered unsuitable for building until after World War II, it then became a testing ground for adventurous twentieth-century architects such as Robin Boyd, Peter McIntyre, Anatol Kagan and McGlashan Everist, who used inventive form and technological advances to tailor homes to the topography.

Faced with a steep vacant site and a highly engaged client, March Studio looked to this modernist tradition for cues to how best accommodate a large