Iredale Pedersen hook architects and Caroline Di Costa Architect’s CASA31_4 Room House is the winner of theprestigious Residential Best of Category Award in the 2013 International Interior Design Association (IIDA) Global Excellence Awards.
The 4th Annual Global Excellence Awards competition honours and celebrates outstanding originality and
excellence in the creation of international Interior Design/Architecture projects in 10 categories.“IIDA is proud to recognize and honor those entrants worldwide whose work best elevates Design and embodies the competition’s spirit of vitality in innovation,” IIDA Executive Vice President and CEO Cheryl S. Durst, Hon.FIIDA, LEED AP, said. “The submissions we received speak not only to the diversity in design perspective worldwide, but to the standard of excellence that a competition of this calibre can elicit.”
The jury panel judging the submissions from 36 countries worldwide consisted of: Marc Fornes, Architect D.P.L.G.(Principal and Founder of THEVERYMANY); Marlene M. Liriano, IIDA, LEED AP ID+C (Vice President and Director of Interior Design, HOK FLORIDA); Patricia Rotondo, Associate IIDA (Associate Principal, VOA Associates Incorporated); and John Schoenbeck (Director, Design Los Angeles Studio – BMW
DesignworksUSA).“The entries received this year were outstanding and reflected an incredible body of work currently being produced globally,” Liriano said. “We found the creative process involved and the overall design solutions to be inviting,intriguing and inspiring.”CASA31_4 Room House Alterations and Additions was completed over the last three years by its architect owners Caroline Di Costa and Adrian Iredale exploring diverse themes of sustainable design, family and constructed memory, contextual relationship and perspective manipulation.Winners for all categories will be honoured and celebrated at a special awards presentation Saturday, January 25,2014 at the Maison&Objet show in Paris, at which time the Best of Competition winner will also be announced.
 

CASA31_4 Room House was also the recent winner of the Design Institute of Australia (DIA) WA Residential
Interior Architecture Award and is now shortlisted for the 2014 Australian Interior Design Awards.

CASA31_4 Room House- Project Description

Over the last 3 years the architect couple explored their 1936 queen anne mount hawthorn federation house scraping, layering, and peeling with 4 primary spatial ideas:

The room to the interior

The room to the garden

The room to the horizon

The room to the sky

The room to the interior explores what existed, years of layering, the art of construction, knowing what to keep, what to reveal and what to remove, knowledge gained from 13 years indulging in the past. rooms become the embodiment of a city, a microcosm of the qualities that make a great city.

The room to the garden focuses attention to the exterior at ground level, it is purposely heavy and grounded engaging with the earth, the section expands to the exterior, a series of folding screens layer the engagement.

A space of deep sensory delight, an architectural palette cleanser , transitions the ground and upper level, the eyes and nose are overpowered by the burnt and waxed plywood walls and the amber light cast by nan’s 1950′s sliding door.

The room to the horizon filters the suburban roof tops, the screen abstracts the exterior world, the interior is one folded space formed through a play on the one point perspective that intensifies the horizon. Openable screens create a direct view framing the horizon, releasing the interior volume. The newly restored, 1956 iwan iwanoff guthrie residence cabinet finds a new home after 15 years of storage in numerous architect’s garages. The roughly painted ‘i love linda’ remains on the chimney, a rear window frames the distant saint mary’s church.

The room to the sky creates a vertical spatial experience, unlike st mary’s church our little spire opens up to the heavens.

This project includes both a macro and micro approach to sustainability. It also extends the meaning of sustainability beyond environmental to include contextual, social, cultural and economic concerns.

This house will be a case example for the local authorities demonstrating the importance of preserving the 1935 Queen Anne Federation home with the capacity to embrace contemporary expectations of living, without comprising the street context or privacy of adjoining properties. The neighbouring house completes the street sequence of ‘twins’ and twins should never be separated.

The removal of material from site is minimised, an attitude of ‘upgrading’ ensures that materials once concealed for structural purposes are now used for decks, doorframes and architraves.

The upper and lower level spaces are protected from the low, intense summer sun with timber framed fixed and operable screens, the upper level is cooled with a manually operated reticulation system that drip feeds water on to the fabric, hot moving air is rapidly chilled, this is Perth’s largest ‘Coolgardie Safe’, a 19th century low-tech refrigeration system used by the Coolgardie WA gold miners to cool edible goods.

This project represents a holistic approach to design and dwelling, where memories are preserved, carbon footprint minimised and the concerns of the broader community celebrated.

IIDA link

http://www.iida.org/content.cfm/2013-global-excellence-award-winners

Practice Profile
iredale pedersen hook is a progressive, young architecture practice with studio's in Perth and Melbourne and a rapidly expanding diverse body of work throughout Australia. From the wine region of Victoria’s Yarra Valley, to the desert of the North Kimberly region, through suburban Perth and the rural edge of Melbourne to remote Christmas Island, the projects are as individual and eclectic as the landscape they occupy. Each piece of architecture seeks to embody a unique design response of innovation and delight. The works can be gathered in relation to their geographical location demonstrating an embrace of their context and closer examination reveals a collection of thematic concerns that evolve and develop. The studio is dedicated to the pursuit of appropriate design of effective sustainable buildings with a responsible environmental and social agenda. Their projects have won multiple international awards – including two honourable mentions in the Architectural Review (UK) Awards for Emerging Architecture, over forty Australian architecture awards at a State and National level including Australian Institute of Architects Awards, Dulux Colour Awards, Colorbond Steel Awards. The work of the studio has been exhibited in Tokyo, Seoul, Moscow, Toronto, New York and London and is consistently published internationally in significant titles of both the architectural and popular press including A+U, The Architectural Review, Abitare and Monument.
The architecture of iredale pedersen hook is drawn from a landscape that is dominated by the horizon. In Australia the desert and the ocean operate as constant counterpoints to the occupation of land by built objects. The work shares an understanding of an edge condition that is described by remote locations, incredible sites and the centre of the peripheral.
The studio operates around three very different individuals with three very different approaches to their work,
however it proves to be a very complementary assemblage due to the collaborative skills of all the partners. Iredale is the artist who draws incessantly and produces evocative watercolours of the conceptual ideas within each project, Pedersen defines the social conscience for the team as his strong environmental bias is underpinned by a functional elegance, Hook is the academic with a direct and pragmatic agenda he seeks clarity in each scheme.
Underpinning the collaboration is a mutual commitment to produce architecture that is responsive and compelling. After thirteen years together the refined combination of the three partner's talents supplemented by a strong, ambitious team provides iredale pedersen hook architects with a unique depth for the provision of architectural services.

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