South Yarra-based studio David Luck Architecture has designed the Red Hill Residence project.
Completed in 2002, this nice contemporary weekend retreat is located on the Victorian Mornington Peninsula, a peninsula located south-east of Melbourne in Victoria, Australia. In this project an uneasy relationship with landscape is described. Silent, blind, visually connected yet emotionally detached. A black box of the mind that locks into the emotional landform of ancient Australia. Taking the debate of ownership and occupation further as Architecture as the mother of art can only do. The large solid tectonic wall and floor planes are tilted and opened to direct ones body. Compressing and releasing emotion into the landscape. Miesian language is cross-polinated with Japanese notions of platform. Fingers of the building reach out to the indigenous landscape to connect and question. Form has a crusty power with the theatrics now on the inside. Plate glass, steel sheet, sliding walls are cut out of the light to make direct, sincere plastic spaces continuing the modernist project in a critical direction.
