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Location
Brunswick, VIC
Builder
Ficus Constructions & Ilario Ferretto (2015)
Neverstop Group (2018 Extension)
Photographer
Peter Clarke and Tom Ross
The Breathe studio is about a home coming to The Commons — it’s a paragon project for the practice, and one that continues to serve as a tool to express our architectural priorities and identity. Tucked behind a maze of bicycle parking in the southwest corner of The Commons, you enter through an inconspicuous door — hand painted signage the only clue to what lies beyond.
The studio was an exercise in building more with less. Giving space, height, light and air. Its honesty is an expression of ethic over aesthetic. Data cables are curated in infinite lines on the walls. Five thousand pencils pixelate the skin of the double height meeting room. These spines give acoustic attenuation and hint at the architect’s endless search.
The studio is small and spacious simultaneously; school lockers provide banks of material samples to the quiet architects hidden behind. Lush vines climb out of the lockers into the mesh screen above providing a link to nature, its imperfection and its beauty.
We acknowledge the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin Nation, the Traditional Custodians of the land upon which our Studio stands. We recognise their continuing connection to land, waters and culture.
The Breathe studio is about a home coming to The Commons — it’s a paragon project for the practice, and one that continues to serve as a tool to express our architectural priorities and identity. Tucked behind a maze of bicycle parking in the southwest corner of The Commons, you enter through an inconspicuous door — hand painted signage the only clue to what lies beyond.
The studio was an exercise in building more with less. Giving space, height, light and air. Its honesty is an expression of ethic over aesthetic. Data cables are curated in infinite lines on the walls. Five thousand pencils pixelate the skin of the double height meeting room. These spines give acoustic attenuation and hint at the architect’s endless search.
The studio is small and spacious simultaneously; school lockers provide banks of material samples to the quiet architects hidden behind. Lush vines climb out of the lockers into the mesh screen above providing a link to nature, its imperfection and its beauty.
Location
Brunswick, VIC
Builder
Ficus Constructions & Ilario Ferretto (2015)
Neverstop Group (2018 Extension)
Photographer
Peter Clarke and Tom Ross
We acknowledge the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin Nation, the Traditional Custodians of the land upon which our Studio stands. We recognise their continuing connection to land, waters and culture.
Always was, always will be Aboriginal land. Breathe acknowledges the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin Nation, the Traditional Custodians of the land upon which Breathe stands. We pay our respects to their Elders, past and present.
