‘Maintenance is sexy’ is the mantra of Dogspike Design's Bobbie Bayley and Owen Kelly. They print it on t-shirts. They write it in the corner of their notebooks. It's probably tattooed on their bodies in a crisp architects’ script. Maintenance is a philosophy that cascades across their entire practice. It demands consideration of granular details. Maintenance of materials. Maintenance of environment. In the case of this house, maintenance of life.
Their Blackheath, New South Wales, project came with a personal brief
