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ONE ROOM TOWER BY PHORM ARCHITECTURE + DESIGN WITH SILVIA MICHELI AND ANTONY MOULIS

This micro project tackles macro urban issues such as sprawl and overpopulation by reclaiming and reinventing small-scale spaces in the suburbs. The clients for One Room Tower, Antony Moulis and Silvia Micheli, are architectural designers, theorists and educators at the University of Queensland. For this project they were motivated by a series of personal circumstances that required an extension to their home, to cater for visiting family members who sometimes stay for months at a time.

The couple set about sketching a series of options to investigate a feasible solution. Typical configurations for extensions often involve a “lift and infill” strategy or a rear addition, but the owners’ design

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