Welcome to Iwan Iwanoff's own house and studio in Floreat
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| © Hannah Gosling, 2010 |
This was a rare opportunity to visit the interior of one of Iwan Iwanoff's buildings - there was a home open as this house is going on auction soon. I was pretty happy to get the 'Stephen Neille tour' of this building, apparently he studied and visited it some years ago and knows it pretty well! Unfortunately it is not yet heritage listed, though the AIA has it on its list of 'nationally significant 20th-century architecture'. Thank you to the estate agents who allowed us to take photos, and who put up with all the visiting architects and architecture students.
south elevation
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| © Hannah Gosling, 2010 |
one of the concrete relief sculptures on either side of the front door, cast from polystyrene packing crates
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| © Hannah Gosling, 2010 |
red-framed windows (I think the colour is not original though not dissimilar to the original), also apparently red window frames is a FLW thing?
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| © Hannah Gosling, 2010 |
this bedroom was the former garage
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| © Hannah Gosling, 2010 |
view from former garage through to central stairs (I don't think this view used to exist when it was a garage - I think its a good addition!)
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| © Hannah Gosling, 2010 |
view from former studio to central stairs
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| © Hannah Gosling, 2010 |
first floor living & dining
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| © Hannah Gosling, 2010 |
dining
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| © Hannah Gosling, 2010 |
kitchen
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| © Hannah Gosling, 2010 |
balcony with solar pergola (over-spanning timber?)
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| © Hannah Gosling, 2010 |
one of two first floor spines - I actually quite like the ceiling that is exposed (vermiculite?) insulation, it looks kind of like compressed shredded paper
also all the cabinets beneath the windows used to have operable shutters so that the building could vent naturally (which is why the concrete blocks protrude slightly at first floor ground level, see relief sculpture image, however they have taken away the switches/levers and now have artificial cooling/heating
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| © Hannah Gosling, 2010 |
a bedroom
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| © Hannah Gosling, 2010 |
another bedroom
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| © Hannah Gosling, 2010 |
the spines push out through the east and west facades but the openings are still shaded
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| © Hannah Gosling, 2010 |
first floor north-facing windows
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| © Hannah Gosling, 2010 |
ground floor north-facing windows
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| © Hannah Gosling, 2010 |
north elevation (check out that solar pergola)
the house seems to sit on a rather classical base
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| © Hannah Gosling, 2010 |
Its a happy Hannah!
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| © Susan Nguyen, 2010 |
Check out Susie's detail photos - that toilet was cool! I'm pretty sure the walls of the toilet move so that the bathroom on either side has access to it, though I was not daring enough to try this for myself. Every bedroom has an ensuite in this house!
For further information on the Australian Institute of Architects Heritage Register, see here.
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