Brett Mitchell Your house borrows its form from the terrace: long and lean, with the short elevation to the street. Had you lived in similar housing before commencing the project?
Philip We’ve always lived in strange old houses, granny flats, terraces and apartments.
Melinda That’s all we could afford at the time. So we were comfortable with compact spaces, and quite liked the linear, narrative structure of those types of houses. That rhythm of street–verandah–room/room/room–garden, all squeezed into an elongated plan.
We were also interested in the spatial possibilities that those conditions present – things like
