PALMETTE BY SUM
May 29, 2022
4 minutes
Words by Tobias Horrocks
Photography by Thurston Empson
Architecture practice Sum named this project Palmette to represent how the renovation and addition unfurls from small and enclosed to expansive and light. The palmette, a decorative motif of stylized palm leaves, features in the interior of the original home – an 1885 terrace house in Melbourne’s Carlton – but Sum has not referred to it literally. Rather, the forms that extend into and expand out from the original front section are angular, abstract and minimal, not organic. Yet like the palmette, the design draws our attention to nature.
The spaces of the renovated home unfold at the top
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