FUSILIER COTTAGE ADDITION BY BENCE MULCAHY
An enjoyable lesson from my architecture degree concerned the ways in which grades of private and public space could be articulated, and the understanding that variations between these states were arrived at through subtle manipulations of distance, level changes, screening and light. This learning has been reinforced over the years during discussions with architects about the way they scale designs for particular circumstances, with different dimensions used for conversation and socializing, solitude and separation. Working within the historical, city-fringe context of Battery Point in Hobart, Bence Mulcahy has arrived at a pleasing and perhaps surprising mix of these states in
