The Kew House is award-winning House of the Month, August 2008 by architecture record. Designed by Jackson Clements Burrows Architects in Melbourne, Australia. Located at the end of a cul de sac in the coveted Yarra Boulevard neighborhood, a residential area following the flow of the Yarra River, the land falls away 11.5 feet from street level to the former tennis court below. The hill falls again beyond this area, creating a precipice from which the river and a golf course can be seen.

Jackson Clements Burrows created a three part, two toned, steel and copper, titanium alloy clad form for the house that would telescope progressively from front to back. The three shells that make up the horizontal stacking-block form contain an entry shell with study and garage, a middle shell with bedrooms, bathrooms, and laundry, and an end shell with kitchen, dining, and living areas. The three forms are suspended in the tree canopy with a supporting structure of circular two-tone columns. Beneath this platform level is a glazed area with an additional bedroom, bathroom, storage, and living areas, a floor of synthetic grass (the last vestige of the tennis court) and a children’s play area. More practical is the fact that the house uses passive thermal heating and cooling techniques, with a northern orientation, overhangs and minimal openings to the west, as well as operable windows in all rooms and a main hallway acting as a breezeway corridor.

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