Located in an urban area zoned for multi-unit buildings, Kamburu House is designed to fit its context and provide the family with privacy from neighbouring apartment blocks. Externally, the house’s rectilinear form and industrial materials fit its surroundings. While internally, the curves, colours and joinery bring softness and playfulness to living areas and bedrooms.
The house is a long tube-like form interspersed with voids and spaces to draw the landscape in. Clad with metal shingles pressed with a quilted pattern, it reflects and refracts the garden, as if almost making the building disappear. In contrast to the industrial exterior, the interior is domestic and eclectic with timber lining the vaulted ceilings and materials such as stained glass, Venetian plaster and dramatic marble that play with light.
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Exploring the project in-depth enables us to deliver the unexpected and go beyond your expectations. We start with discussions and site visits and investigate what you need and want to achieve. Then taking a step back, we’ll research the context of your project and identify ways to make a positive contribution to the local community and neighbourhood. Examining the existing materials and architectural history helps us gain valuable insights and develop innovative solutions.
Through our open, collaborative approach, we’ll guide you through the design and build of your project from concept to completion, taking the time to make sure our design decisions are clear and logical and you’re informed about what’s going on. We believe client involvement and ideas lead to bespoke and tailored outcomes, resulting in buildings and spaces designed especially for you.
Our designs have a firm foundation in reality. It’s essential that our projects are not only visionary but also functional and feasible. We’ll meticulously investigate all constraints and requirements, whether related to planning rules and regulations or time and budget, to ensure the project is achievable and practical.
Sustainability and quality are ingrained in our work, and every project integrates first principles: orientation, passive design, insulation and air tightness. We advocate for adaptive re-use to minimise environmental impact. We strive to build smaller and better, creating more structures and spaces that are long-lasting and more efficient.
Through our holistic approach, we’ll consider interiors and exteriors together, and many of our projects call for one-of-a-kind elements and details, such as custom furniture, objects and lighting. These bespoke additions – designed in-house and manufactured by our team or local artisans – help achieve a unique and cohesive vision for your project
2024
Australian Interior Design Awards
2024
ACT Institute of Architects Awards
2023
Eat Drink Design Awards
2023
ACT Institute of Architects Awards
2022
Master Builders Awards
2020
Master Builders Awards
13 Wiluna Street,
Fyshwick ACT 2609
02 6176 3438
hello@mymymy.com.au
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