North Melbourne House by NMBW Architecture Studio

Built on the land of the Boon Wurrung and Wurundjeri people of the Kulin nation

North Melbourne, Victoria

Jury citation North Melbourne House is a project that speaks to the future and, more specifically, to the important issue of ageing in place. Its social program drives a spatial inventiveness that is truly adaptable, allowing for multiple unprescribed modes of occupation. The architecture invites nesting, its considered detailing relying on neither material richness nor asceticism, but rather a sophisticated accumulation of the prosaic. Representing a clever assembly on the site and within its urban context, this house is modest and fundamentally sustainable.

— North Melbourne House will be reviewed by Andy Fergus in Houses 131.

Architect NMBW Architecture Studio; Project team Marika Neustupny, Nigel Bertram, Lucinda McLean (design architects), Byron Meyer (graduate of architecture); Builder CB Maintenance; Structural and civil engineer Perrett Simpson Stantin; Building surveyor PLP Building Surveyors and Consultants