Kavellaris Urban Designs
Interior Designing in Yarra

We are interested in architecture as an intellectual and philosophical construct founded on ideas that are materialized and translated into an architectural language. The core of our practice philosophy seeks to engage in conscientious environmental design interventions as a base to deliver unique and intelligent architecture to meet our client's requirements and budgets. FUD has been widely recognized locally and internationally through leading architectural publications, journals and television, and has received national and international awards for residential and commercial projects. Billy Kavellaris is the managing director and established FUD in 2002. He has led his team of architects to whole single residential dwellings, lofty density residential, public and commercial buildings and major lofty rise developments. Billy has taught at the University of Melbourne and has also and has also been a guest critic at various universities.

Reflective mirrored glass was incorporated to maintain privacy to the internal space, while simultaneously reflecting the landscape onto the building, providing a striking contrast of urban materials in a green pack site. The building forms are essentially decorated geometric volumes that are divided into little groups that continue the character of the precinct, with each having the historical language, ornamentation and narrative of existing architectural examples found along the baling Road strip. These historical building typologies are represented through ornamental treatments to the facade, but simultaneously create an additional contemporary layer that provides a dual architectural narrative of the preceding and future. The project explores five key areas of investigation site context, vehicle access and parking, solar orientation, landscaping and views which informed the design response for the proposal. Our objective was to internalize and structure views from inner to outside and from one space to the other. Strategically placing windows throughout the house enabled us maintain privacy and surveillance from the front of the house right through to the back. FUD’s objective was to establish an express an alternative architectural language that reflected this design philosophy and utilized the project as an experimental canvas. The existing originate plan, double heighten floor spaces and mezzanine provided an opportunity to create a separation between the private and public areas, whilst maintaining critical visual connections throughout. This exchange and redefining of public and private spaces was a critical cultural shift for the office typology. Our primary objective was to incorporate the critical components of school’s culture and history as a celebration and balance of the previous and the coming creating coming heritage’ for the next generation. Our objective for this project was to design an alternative vertical building form from a series of stacked floor plates expressed as individual volumes, as opposed to one important extruded volume with a repetition of window and balcony expressions. A attractive 1930’s Art deck building covers the complete footprint of the small site which we retained and integrated as part of our design response. The Jewell project draws on classical design principles which we consider to be not only apropos to contemporary architecture, but are design strategies essential for good design outcomes. This movement is reinforced by the reflective nature of the metallic cladding that changes the color and textural qualities of the building with the varying light and shadow of the day. We incorporated landscaped streets and lane ways within the subject site to bear spatial separation between dwellings and to enable every habitable space to receive instinctive light and ventilation. The southern elevation has been specifically designed with a constructed view of the building, usual of the classical order, when viewed from the street. This architectural manipulation of space blurs the boundaries between internal and outside, the public and private realm. The manipulated spaces overlap and borrow the amenity and context of its surrounding environment. The Gold Street House responds to the rear lane way character of garage doors, timber fences and the neglected leftover spaces from the terrace houses that fore the opposing street. The house can be read as a conversation of qualities, of thick and lightness, public and private and of light and darkness. The public space which is experienced through implied volume, mediates between the private which are smaller volumes within the overall unfold plan larger volume. The subject site enjoys three street frontages in a context where there are pretty and iconic views of Melbourne in every direction. The vertical void also pronounces a powerful connection to the entry and highlights the sense of address for the building. This project takes four main ideas from its physical and social