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The Nichols House is a residential building designed by the Australian architect Kevin Borland. The construction was completed in 1973 and awarded the OPCD Bronze Medal for The Age/RAIA House of the Year together with Max May’s Rattle House at Harkaway in 1974. The project is a medium density development which shows many of Borland's architectural ideals regarding the configurations of how the modern family dwells in. These ideologies resulted in two major themes, a distinctive connection with the topography of the site and a creative approach to the ideas of family events happening in stages such as a theatre. == Description == Kevin Borland quoted that “one’s design was as good as the people who lived in them. “ According to Conrad Hamann, The large extensive house located in the Eltham bushes overseeing the Yarra, has a wing-form shape. Norman Day points out “It would seem the near north eastern bush suburbs are his to control.” This lolling house made of brick and timber was solely designed based on architectural responses to the needs and spatial necessities that are essential to a family. Timber was used both interior and exterior, such as the benches of the kitchen and the washing table, however the present owner painted the pinus board on the outside because it was cracking and peeling due to the Australian sun over the years. Because the house is placed on a sharp slanted hill it has pushed the house to have four levels. The most emphasised stage to these spacious to intimate rooms is the dining room. This room, which is connected to the open kitchen, spans into a double height volume that becomes the focus point of the house (Hamann 2006). Borland creates an internal scene where the house is one with the terrain outside; this can be seen in how brick flooring is paved in the entire house. In section view it is a long hallway that connects the many bedrooms, this idea in plans is reflected on the early bi-nuclear bedroom separation, which incorporates the extended family, usually consisting of two separate households, formed by the children and subsequent spouses of the partners in a divorce. When viewed in elevation the house become quite narrow because of its steep nature, but in fact is quite broad when viewed from the inside and drawings. These internal formations reinforce the house as a descending transformation.〔 The extended space makes the present dining space quite practical also with good view to the back yard and a wider corridor. Another practical area is the separated communal bathroom and wc in the middle of the bedroom wing. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Nichols House, Eltham」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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