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    HOUSE A

    Oct 10, 2018 5 minutes
    NATALIE MORTIMER

    Architect’s statement.

    Whispering Smith’s House A is a challenge to the status quo of housing in Perth. The sustainable apartment-house hybrid is designed for small lots and uses commercial materials in an innovative way to achieve a tight footprint and carbon neutral status.

    The brief was to take a 175-square metre block under Perth’s single bedroom dwelling code, and make an affordable and sustainable home for Whispering Smith’s director, Kate FitzGerald and her partner. House A is 70 square metres of compact, flexible and delightful spaces, which are capable of hosting a dinner party for 30 guests, illustrating that small can be big.

    House A was the first house of three by Whispering Smith, in partnership with FitzGerald’s father. The diminutive footprint of the house was designed to maintain the existing mature trees and 1950s house on-site, with House A being allocated to the land left

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