Inner-City Terrace in Sydney by Breathe Architecture: Double Life House
This “hide-out” is a narrow inner-city terrace in Sydney. It is a haven; custom-made for a mild mannered dynamic duo and the double lives they lead.
Breathe Architecture
Breathe Architecture is a Melbourne based studio, designing world class architecture with an enduring and meaningful impact on housing affordability, accessibility and sustainability.
Breathe Architecture was founded in 2001 by Design Director Jeremy McLeod and Tamara Veltre. Underpinning all of our work is the rigorous pursuit of sustainable design that is simultaneously beautiful, seemingly effortless, and environmentally positive. We have maintained our position at the forefront of sustainable design since inception; and through our award-winning built works, advocacy and design leadership, have built a reputation for delivering high quality architectural solutions.
Breathe are also the founders of the Nightingale Model, which was established in parallel with the inaugural project: Nightingale 1.0, commencing in 2014 and completed in 2017. Nightingale is a development delivery tool for deliberative, design-led, triple-bottom-line housing that has now evolved to become an independent, profit-for-purpose entity that is the keeper of the Nightingale intellectual property developed by us, and the custodians of the Nightingale purchaser waitlist. Nightingale has garnered both local and global attention in the marketplace, and further differentiates and demonstrates Breathe’s ability to think laterally and productively to achieve new ways to deliver on our practice purpose.
We are who we are, and have the purpose and vision we do, because we believe we can make a difference. It is through this lens we find broader opportunities and greater design solutions that others do not see – or simply do not want to consider. We push that extra mile because we genuinely care about the outcome, form and function, both now and into the future. We consider ourselves accountable. Environmentalists. Humanitarians. Urbanists. Activists.
Our purpose is to design architecture that is meaningful and accessible to all. To approach the built environment from a holistic and sustainable perspective, reconciling ecological and social design impacts within any economic climate. We aim to be change agents in this space, and to be advocates for the people in the cities in which we are fortunate to live and work.
LOCATION: Melbourne, Australia
LEARN MORE: breathe.com.au
Brick & Gable House / Breathe Architecture
Brick & Gable House is designed for a family of four. We were initially engaged to build a larger house for them, but after spending time living overseas, they returned realising that they could live in a smaller footprint.
The Commons Mixed-Use Building by Breathe Architecture
The Commons, by Breathe Architecture, is situated in East Brunswick, six kilometers from Melbourne’s CBD. Clad in a chevron-patterned façade, the building is a raw and captivating piece of architecture.
Halo House Features Aesthetics and Design Inspired by Nordic Modernism
Halo House was designed by Breathe Architecture with landscape design by Eckersley Garden Architecture. Breathe explain the concept of a “halo effect” of enhanced activity in & around the house, similar to that of an iceberg in the ocean.
Transformer Fitzroy Restaurant- Converting an Old Factory of Electric Transformers
Melbourne-based Breathe Architecture recently transformed a former electrical transformers factory in a restaurant – Transformer Fitzroy.