Crosby Architects

New adaptable house On the drawing board is a new house for a small lot in a regional Victorian town. I started this design before the FLIP FLOP house and it has informed that process. Now I want to take some stuff back into the design from what was learnt in the FLIP FLOP house. [...]

This small house in a regional Victorian town integrates planting and prefabrication into its very core. Built on a small lot with views across the road to bush, it was designed on a tight budget and to achieve high thermal performance. This performance will be further enhanced as the planting on the north and east [...]

Residential Alteration A tight site in a street of workers’ cottages, this project is in the early design stage. The site steps down to the back by two metres and is east–west in orientation. Currently there is a single-storey brick building on the site and it’s yet to be decided how much of it is [...]

Concept for a house on a sloping site around a large Iron Bark Eucalypt

New Townhouse This house was designed for the clients to build and sell, targeting a particular market. The site is orientated north–south with the rear facing north. The first floor is fully timber battened and faces west. Living spaces are on the ground floor with the kitchen and the study facing the street. There are [...]

New Residence The design response to this narrow site in a street with strict planning controls was to create a building that starts small from the entrance and reaches up to the back (north) end of the site; views of the city are captured from a first floor deck. The zinc roof was designed from [...]

Single detatched house location Carisbrooke St, Balnarring Beach date 2001-2003 status completed

New House This was a design exercise of Geoff’s for some land he owned in northern Victoria. The central idea was to work around a rock wall, which created two hearths and defined all the spaces. The other idea was to capture rain in a wing-like roof and create an expressive form out of simple [...]

New House “The functionalism of this house is not structural expressionism but a spatial expression of function. This appears externally and internally with the intention of making the building an integrated expression of its place, its function and its form. Underpinning this desire is Crosby’s continuing interest in buildings that respond to their environmental context. [...]