Vidler Luescher Residence

This house is located on a very steep site adjacent to a nature reserve. Careful placement of the house on the site and provision of an upper floor provide the occupants with total privacy from all the neighbouring houses.

All rooms of the upper floor open onto a cantilevered deck which is at the same level as the gum tree canopies. At the lower level porphyry cladding and blockwork anchor the building to the site, with the rear of the house delicately poised on steel columns.

The upper floors are clad in a combination of corrugated iron, western red cedar and fibre cement. The deck balustrade is constructed out of timber battening and wire mesh.

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