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The overlapping provides a weather seal and reduces the total width of the accumulated layers.

The interlocking of the elements improves structural stability and allows two vertical elements to read as a single glazing jamb. Murcutt removes the handle on the sliding door and inverts the section to double as a handle. Studies show stripped glazing extrusions coupled with rotated identical supports. The Simpson-Lee House drawings exemplify this process.

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In spite of his clear familiarity with the product, in each project aluminium details are redrawn in plan and section at half and full scale to rethink and newly contextualize each element. Murcutt began using Lidco in the 1960s and has since employed this building component in successive projects. Studies of Lidco standard aluminium sliding door and window glazing systems are indicative. The documents are heavily notated and specifications form an integral layer. These dry, economical drawings operate as both a mode of thinking and a medium for construction, and Murcutt’s architecture seems to substantively appear through numerous reworkings of this section.Īn intricate knowledge of many off-the-shelf materials and prefabricated building systems informs these working drawings.

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Its evolution is particularly visible in a series of section drawings at 1:20. With the location and principal components established, this project developed over several years and via continuous and subtle adjustment was gradually refined. It further oriented the pavilion outlook across a fall in the landscape.

The new placement, however, offered a significant economy in allowing a single-storey building to be more easily constructed along the flatter site contours with minimal adjustment to the existing ground.

This kind of reorientation is unusual for Murcutt as the mechanisms of climatic control implied by his directional section are wedded to a northern aspect for their success. In the eventual siting, unexpectedly, this house plan was rotated ninety degrees to align with an existing bush track, the latter incorporated as the building’s circulation. Angled roofing protects the building in summer, allowing winter sun access. In early sketches the project follows a familiar initial strategy: a north-facing pavilion organized as bays, larger rooms on the northern glazed side with service facilities to a principally closed rear. The architecture developed is newly austere and abstract, this quality extending from the overall building and its situation to all material details. The pavilion outlook is orientated across a fall in the landscape.Īlignments and tensions between client and architect, between shared environmental ambitions and local governmental conservatism, intensified Murcutt’s inherently disciplined method.

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