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| | A23 GLENARD DRIVE, Eaglemont | | 距離: | 10.8 公里 to CBD; 1.1 公里 to Heidelberg Station [公共交通] |
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| 地圖位置 | 街景 | 周邊成交價 | | 改建申請曆史: | | | 被市政府指定為 Victorian heritage | Last updated on - June 26, 2007
What is significant?
Pholiota was built as the home of architects Walter and Marion Griffin in 1920 on an allotment in the Glenard Estate, Eaglemont, which had been laid out by Griffin in 1915. Built using Knitlock concrete blocks, the small house was designed with a highly innovative plan. Subsequent additions, particularly in 1938, have concealed the original building from the street, however the original dwelling can still be recognised.
Arriving in Australia permanently in 1914, American architects, Walter Burley Griffin (1876-1937)and Marion Mahony (1871-1961)moved to Melbourne in 1915. In 1919 their first experiment with minimalist dwelling design was a pair of cottages, Gumnuts and Marnham, Frankston, designed for their use as a weekend retreat. These prototype Knitlock cottages employed a construction system of concrete wall tile units that Griffin had patented in 1917. This system was developed as an economical, flexible and quick do-it-yourself construction system, with machine produced standard concrete tiles, or segments, which were fitted together on site. Machines and timber moulds were used to cast the concrete tiles, which were basically of two types; the vertebral, quadrant shaped block, that formed the framework and the distinctive vertical piers; and the tesseral block that provided the wall infill. The former blocks formed columns and corners and the latter were interlocked back to back with staggered joints, resulting in smooth surfaces both externally and internally, and the facility to incorporate steel reinforcing rods in the core between blocks.
The Griffins utilised the same Knitlock construction system in the design of their first home, Pholiota, on land they owned on the Glenard Estate, adjacent to that of architect, Roy Lippincott and his wife, Walter's sister. A very small house of innovative design and novel construction system, Pholiota was controversial in terms of building regulations at the time of construction.
Pholiota is a small, single storeyed house with square plan, laid out using modules, defined by the vertical piers of the Knitlock system, and an overall dimension of 21 feet (6.4 metres). It was designed as a cross within a square, containing a central, square room with a pyramidal ceiling, surrounded by a series of eight small alcoves with flat ceilings. These alcoves originally contained the entrance and service areas in the corners and a piano, fireplace and two bedroom alcoves on the sides. Curtains were used to partition the corner alcoves, and bedroom spaces when required. Casement windows, with decorative diagonal glazing bars, extend to the ceiling line, and were designed to open inwards using a simple nail pivot. The floor was originally of red brick laid directly on the ground using a herringbone pattern, and this is evident in the former kitchen and bathroom |
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