Naples Street House | Edition Office
The Naples Street House is an exercise in formal and material restraint, towards a heightened connection to social and environmental rhythms.
A home for three generations of the one family where the twin elders of the family are reflected in the alternating roof peaks; experienced spatially as a cycle of change, of rising and falling forms, as its occupants circulate around the central courtyard.
The uniform outer skin of brick cladding wraps up the outer walls, over the folded roof forms, and down into the central outdoor garden room. The forms of the undulating & folded roofline curate views such that only sky and neighbouring trees are encountered from within the house. This room allows an intimate relationship to context, to light, sun and seasonal change.
The singular outer material presents the house as a carved solid, formally referencing lowslung pitched roof forms of the original interwar houses of the neighbourhood.
