Sturt Street Office Home
2018 Australian Institute of Architects - South Australia Chapter Awards.
Commendation for Small Project Architecture.
Sturt Street Office Home was is a home for our office. It reflected how we like to work. A simple plan constructed with self-finished materials. Overlaid with colour, pattern and texture to contrast and complement.
A limited palette of usually concealed or discarded building materials is celebrated.
A ceiling string sculpture constructed from bricklayers’ string is a playful and personal reflection on childhood interests in string art, Spirograph and pattern making.
Office fitouts are often sacrificial, expensive both financially and materially. Demonstrating that a fitout can be inexpensive and avoid wastefulness, Office Home is demountable, not fixed to the walls at any point it can be reassembled elsewhere.
A series of boxes in the window displayed our models and mini art work by others – Adelaide’s Smallest Gallery!
Office Home is a prototype. It explores how far you can get with a few (quite a few) trips to the hardware shop.