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Living Screen House

Living Screen
Written by Roma Publications

Living Screen House

Located in the coastal Sydney suburb of North Bondi, Living Screen House is a stunning family residence. Over three and half years in the making from CplusC Architectural Workshop, Living Screen House has received widespread recognition since it was completed in December 2016.

The two storey development includes a number of innovative and unique features, both internally and externally, that make it standout. This was recently highlighted at the World Architecture Festival (WAF) Awards where the project was shortlisted in the Housing category.

Living Screen

The brief given to CplusC and lead architect Clinton Cole centred on creating a space which could be a springboard for entertaining indoors and outdoors as well as a private retreat for a family of five. This begins on arrival where the fully plumbed, self-maintained, LED lit living green wall screens and custom planter beds to the front and side façades are immediately visible. These ensure privacy from neighbours and pedestrian traffic, while also providing a natural green outlook for the home’s occupants.

Internally, the above ground half-lap pool is designed to facilitate interaction with those in the social spaces. The pool shares a clear wall with the double height social space, acting as a visual connection between the interior and exterior spaces and refracting natural light throughout the lower level of the house.

The material palette reveals the elegant craftsmanship of the build and includes unfinished cement bonded wood composite boards, burnished concrete, expressed timber, Corten facade and steel and timber columns that celebrate the structural systems in the house.

Ryan Ng, Living Screen Project Architect and Architectural Project Manager at CplusC, said:

“As a firm which tends to build our own work, each project is hugely significant to us as they represent a massive investment of time and skills over several years. Having said that, Living Screen House made a large splash on social media, so it’s probably going to continue to be important as one of our better known projects for quite some time. We benefited from working with a client with an adventurous brief and a willingness to push the envelope in terms of engineering and constructability challenges, which we capitalised on by including some striking design features in the home.

“Being one of the finalists in WAF means a lot to us as a young and emerging architectural and construction firm. It is a great honour to be recognised in one of the largest global architectural event, listed in fantastic company with a range of established and emerging firms from around the world. It’s given us a lot of confidence to continue pursuing our vision of innovative architecture and craftsmanship.”

To find out about other CplusC Architectural Workshop projects, please visit: cplusc.com.au.

Living Screen

KōbeBoard Cement Bonded Wood Composite

Kōbe Board is an environmentally friendly product combining the oldest and most used building materials of cement and wood to create an extremely versatile building board. Kōbe Board can be used both internally and externally and can be worked with traditional woodworking tools, meaning carpenters or cabinet makers can easily use and install the product using traditional tools such as track saws or drills.

Kōbe Board is produced using Grey Portland cement and eucalyptus wood chip from sustainable plantations to create a very dense but light weight board that has the durability of poured concrete but the versatility and workability of wood. Each eucalypt chip is encased in cement to create an extremely robust building material that not only has very good acoustic and thermal qualities but also high fire resistance.

Unlike traditional type building boards, KobeBoard has neither crystallized silica, asbestos, formaldehyde, urea, arsenic, nor any other hazardous content. In its natural finish it has a non-homogeneous formed concrete look but the finish can easily be stained or painted or used as a substrate for other materials.

KōbeBoard is treated in a similar manner to concrete or cement in respect to sealing, staining and painting. Its uses are endless and it has a very high Fire Rating of Group 1 as per the Building Control Act (BCA).

David Macciolli, Kōbe Board, said:

“We believe pricing is extremely competitive for such a versatile product and are pleased to price each requirement on request.”

David added:

“Our product is continuing to evolve and we are presently developing Kōbe Board “off form”, with finishes in rock face and timber that can be cut to size for use in decking, external cladding etc.”

Kōbe Board is available in Carbon Black and Steel Grey finishes. A White Portland Cement version is currently in development.

KōbeBoard are pleased to have been involved in the “Living Screen House” project designed and constructed by C Plus C in North Bondi Australia.

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