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Second Skin Studio
Woolamai House
2004
RMIT
Architecture
Harry Seidler’s Rose House is inserted on a standard lot at Phillip Island
with the addition of a second skin.
In an attempt to re-order the relationship between the building and site, landscape
components such as a thin screen hedge on steel cyclone mesh fencing is used as
a skin over the building, grounding the previously disconnected box to the landscape.
By investigation of both the steel bracing and the natural ground line of the site,
these compositional elements are extracted to the exterior of the new hedge façade.
In this way, sections of the building which compromise the purity of the rectilinear
form are expressed, demonstrated formally to manipulate the way the building operates
on the site. The use of shadecloth as a secondary skin provides the double layered
facade with the ability to reveal and conceal [through puncture/cut outs], and a
way to change the inherent function of the glass in the original building. Not only
does the skin interiorise the experience from within the building, and from its
immediate external zones, it reconstructs the notion of a 'privileged view' and
the ability to view the landscape from a disconnected position.
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