Crossroad House is Coming 2017…

2017 is shaping up to be a very exciting year for Bleuscape Design and our associated clients. After almost 13 years in practice, one comes into contact with many like-minded people that share the same visions for life and business. I would like to publicly thank Brian and Ted Reid from CHP for their continual […]

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Crossroad House – An alternative to Volume Housing.

 Crossroad House – An alternative to Volume Housing.         Presented By Anthony RiggCopyright – Bleuscape Design Pty. Ltd. All rights reserved        www.bleuscape.com.au It is vital to recognise ‘need’ to design effectively. If we don’t recognise ‘need’ the default response is only ‘form’. ‘Form’ in and of itself is inherently singular only promoting the visual. ‘Need’ on […]

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Improving Volume Housing

Challenge : To design a house with environmental sensitivity in a typical green-fill subdivision? Introducing the ‘Crossroad Concept’.                                   In essence, the idea draws influence from a reality that we engage with daily; the bitumen cross road. This man-made environment is a space controlled by […]

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Modular for the Sub-tropics

Our company is currently engaged in designing a house that is modular in its construction for a site that is defined by strict subdivision parameters. The challenge, from a spatial point of view, is to design appropriately within what is a very ordered environment. We do this by emphasising the courtyard in all different directions. That […]

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Crossroad House 2

                                  In late 2011 the famous American architect, Peter Eisenman known for his intellectual and theoretical approach to design and teaching presented a lecture to the students and faculty of Sci-arc, Southern California’s prestigious architectural school. The lecture was titled ‘Project or Practice?’ Eisenman made […]

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Small is the new big in homes

Supersize is suddenly becoming downsize as home buyers opt for smaller, more efficient homes, one of Australia’s largest property developers says. Stockland chief executive for residential communities, Mark Hunter told Fairfax newspapers on Thursday that the average four-bedroom home had shrunk 20 per cent since 2007. Mr Hunter said smaller three-bedroom, two-bathroom homes were “the […]

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Quote of the day 01/09

If architecture does not change the way the ninety-seven percent live, then it only emphasises the difference between the have’s and the have-nots and therefore is ultimately destructive upon the very culture it seeks to impact. – Anthony Rigg of Bleuscape Design

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The contribution of monotony

Monotony and plainness are rarely considered as factors supressing the Australian psyche. But consider for a moment that most project homes built in estates are by and large the same across the continent. Could we be contributing to what Alain De Botton calls ‘Status Anxiety’? He suggests that our level of satisfaction in life is […]

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The professions offerings

Recently VicUrban, the Victorian Government’s land and development agency, commissioned seven well known Australian architectural practices and volume home builders to collaborate in the design and construction of 5 houses that offer a sustainable/affordable alternative to the current project home offerings. These designs have now been constructed and right ups published. The project is called […]

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