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[...] The Oxlade House, designed by Arkhefield in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, is as far removed from traditional architecture as possible, you would be tempted to think. Its sinuous rear concrete wall and striking graphic shape look nothing like the traditional Queenslander. Yet… around it, in New Farm, an inner Brisbane neighborhood, there are plenty of traditional homes and post-1960s housing stock. The area’s urban planning regulations imposed a Character Housing typology for the home, in complete apparent contradiction with the client’s bold contemporary design brief. Still, the Arkhefield team managed to reinterpret and abstract the features of a traditional house, all the while putting a contemporary spin on such notions as the solid ‘core’ of a house, verandahs, legible roofs and layered screening. Read more [...]