Narveno Court, A Dome House by McBride Charles Ryan in Australia

May 7th, 2010 - Posted in Architecture Design

McBride Charles Ryan is Australian house design company which mostly specialize in experimental designs have designed Narveno Court a Dome House is a Australian home in Hawthorn, suburb of Adelaide, Victoria, Australia. The architectural design concept of this house to take a perfect shape, the copper sphere, and to remove parts. This home is for a lady with a close extended family. The building, which initially appears monumental, plays with scale whereby its elements can be reduced to a puzzle in joinery. Similar to how the external form is reminiscent of Joseph Michael Gandy’s renderings for John Soane’s Bank of England, the project can be seen as a garden cottage – a jewellery box in the (suburban) landscape.

Dome House by McBride Charles Ryan in Australia

In this project for a new house in Hawthorn, a sphere has been buried and eroded at either end and internally. This allowed all spaces to be dispersed or arched over and around the main ground floor living space, which was detailed as a negative or subtracted form, external as if also part of the garden. This space, like the exterior, is rendered in rich and expressive materials.

Exterior Design Dome House by McBride Charles Ryan

In contrast to the copper dome and rich materiality of the exterior, the walls and ceiling of surrounding rooms within the dome are largely absent of colour and material expression. Where tonal variations occur they are of a subtlety which induce in the viewer a questioning of the axioms of perception.

Facade Design Dome House by McBride Charles Ryan