This is LIVING

We’re always looking for that element that will fuck things up,” says David Flack of design firm Flack Studio. “It’s very important for our spaces to feel layered and non-prescriptive.” Flack teamed up with NTF Architecture to create Emplacement, a five-bedroom, five-bathroom house overlooking Melbourne’s Como Park that defies expectation from its very outset, its diminutive proportions as viewed from the street belying the expansive 600-square-metre, three-floored interior within.

The house, designed for a young couple and their four children, took six