HOUSE AT 9 Dundas Court
9 Dundas Court DONCASTER EAST, Manningham City
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Statement of Significance
Completed in 1990 by innovative architect John Wardle, this exciting small addition is of local architectural significance as the only example of contemporary Deconstructivist design in the City. It demonstrates how a careful reworking of a conventional suburban house can regain design objectives (such as sunlight, outdoor living space and outlook) lost in the original building.
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HOUSE AT 9 Dundas Court - Physical Description 1
Facing Rieschiecks Reserve, a major exciting addition to a conventional c1970 hip-roofed, tumble coffee-coloured brick house. In the Deconstructivist manner, its crystalline forms, acute and obtuse angles, cantilevered corner-windows and roof planes collide and embrace the sunlit poolside space, adjoining the parkland. Wide sliding glazed doors have horizontal mullions, with teal and grey lining boards and bagged brickwork. There is a delicate birdswing-like sun-shade of timber slats on light steel rod. The kitchen forms the pivot between the old house and its addition : the walls swell out and around it and materials change to express the transition.
No building in the City is stylistically comparable, but it may be seen as a development from Robinson Chen's houses at 37-39 and 41-43 Curry Road, Park Orchards (1982). Comparable Wardle buildings are 10 Selbourne Road, Toorak (1990), CSIRO Division of Biomolecular Engineering, 343 Royal Parade, Parkville (1991) and "Vertigo" Restaurant, Toorak Road, South Yarra (1990, Demolished).
HOUSE AT 9 Dundas Court - Physical Conditions
Condition Excellent
HOUSE AT 9 Dundas Court - Integrity
Integrity Intact
Heritage Study and Grading
Manningham - Manningham Heritage Study Review
Author: Context Pty Ltd
Year: 2006
Grading: LocalManningham - Doncaster & Templestowe Heritage Study Additional Sites Recommendations
Author: Richard Peterson
Year: 1993
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FRIEDENSRUHVictorian Heritage Register H0376
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OLD ORCHARDManningham City
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ORCHARD on Dawson StManningham City
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