Project 02 — Residential
Ivanhoe Home.
- Location
- Ivanhoe, VIC
- Year
- 2022
- Status
- Completed
- Typology
- Residential
- Photography
- Monk
- Focus
- A room for the mind
The brief
What happens when the quiet room is not an afterthought, but the starting point? At Ivanhoe, the room for the mind came first — and the rest of the home was arranged around it, the way homes are usually arranged around a kitchen or a living room.
Set apart from the traffic of daily life, the room holds the house’s stillest light and its longest view. The family passes it every day — a standing reminder that rest is not a reward for finishing everything else. It is part of the plan.
Ivanhoe is our clearest argument to date: the missing room fits inside an ordinary home, on an ordinary street, for an ordinary family. It only has to be drawn in.
Photographs
19 images
“A home without space to recharge the mind is an incomplete home — no matter how large or well-finished it is.” Monk — What we believe