Bob’s Bungalow | Blair Smith Architecture

This addition to a 1930 Californian bungalow in Strathmore, Melbourne, is a response to countless conversations with two romantics in semi–retirement, accompanied by their rescue dogs, Archie, Buzz – and at one time the project’s namesake, the dearly departed Bob.
Project meetings typically involved sharing food, so this was conducive to extended, wide ranging discussions on subject other than architecture like; film, the veggie garden, collected artefacts, camping trips and the decades already lived within the house. These discussions and the idiosyncrasies of both individuals have now, somehow through osmosis, manifested into a space that evokes their personalities. As a space that compliments an authentically full life and decades of collected treasures, Bob’s Bungalow is unashamedly pastiche–like… a physical translation of an on–going collaboration and friendship.