HILLSIDE HOUSE BY VOKES AND PETERS
There is a tangible sense of familiarity and memory woven into the design of Hillside House by Vokes and Peters. Given the significant number of residential alterations and additions undertaken by the architecture studio across Brisbane’s suburban landscape, this observation may at first seem unsurprising. However, in this house, that familiarity does not arise from the history of a pre-existing house, nor from the use of a building form or embellishment that is overtly deferential to traditional Queensland building character. Rather, it emerges from spatial sensibilities, from the relationship between the house, the landscape and the street, and from an overlay of narratives drawn
