At first look, 123 Home by Neil Cownie Architect is undeniably hanging.

However beneath its sculptural roof traces, and playful minimize out that reveals the house’s 123 road quantity as a shadow, it’s a deeply private place that displays tales of the proprietor’s lives. This was particularly necessary to Neil’s shoppers, because the couple had owned and operated a former Ampol service station at the exact same web site in Perth’s Nedlands for greater than 30 years earlier than they retired.

‘The petrol station was demolished in October 2014, when my shoppers commenced the decommissioning of the station and made software to subdivide the positioning into three residential heaps,’ Neil Cownie says.

They engaged Neil to create a brand new, ‘maintenance-free’ home on the vacant nook block, with sufficient area to additionally accommodate sleepovers from their six grandchildren. Making certain the house was match for ageing in place, a raise gives entry to the principle bed room and residing rooms upstairs, leaving the bottom flooring for his or her visiting grandchildren.

Each the positioning’s distinctive historical past and the neighbourhood’s structure served as inspiration for the ensuing design. The outside’s sandy-white bricks and curves reimagines the acquainted arches and white masonry partitions which are frequent to the encircling interval properties within the space.

Recollections of the previous petrol station are additionally cleverly integrated all through. A window of textured, green-coloured glass gives privateness from onlookers, whereas additionally nodding to the shiny tones of engine oil; the balustrade was impressed by the spokes of a automotive wheel; and the letterbox ‘wobbles’ upon a automobile suspension spring — a lot to ‘the delight of the house owners and the postie’!

Neil even designed a customized eating desk with round desk legs, harking back to stacked automotive tyres. The interiors have a summery, almost-Mediterranean really feel, in honour of the proprietor’s Greek heritage, with textural supplies like mottled face-brickwork, reconstituted timber panels, and lime-washed partitions offering a impartial background for the house’s pop of color within the terrazzo flooring and stained-glass home windows panels.

Each ingredient of the home seeks to celebrates the house owners, giving them a cheerful house for his or her subsequent chapter.

‘My shoppers had given such an excellent service to the local people after they ran the petrol station on this web site, that they’re now so extremely cherished by the local people as they make this place their new house,’ Neil says.