This beautiful river house is designed by MCK Architects, located in Sydney, Australia. This house situated in the site steep and awkwardly shaped, but retains magnificent because it north facing panoramic views over the Lane Cove River. The main living zone in this house is a bent tube shaped form with the Kitchen as the fulcrum. From this space, significant views can be obtained of the local natural precinct. The house itself relates to its rectilinear suburban context at it’s street edge, and it’s more natural contours and organic lines on the non-street side. The air space was utilised to gain additional footprint space, and create a floating datum, effectively the Street Level Ground Floor plane. This datum was duplicated as a ‘lid’ over itself hence the two floating parallel floor plates, which proudly cantilever over the existing castle-esque sandstone basement walls. The first floor shingle box remains largely recessive from the river side.
