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25JAN 2012

LETTERBOX HOUSE / McBride Charles Ryan

Posted in Architecture - Houses by * FORMAKERS

There is a clear hierarchy in this house.

Contrasting to the raked timber wall that stretches from the letterbox to become the westerly verandah, the remainder of the house appears as a simple modernist expression akin to many of the houses of the region.

On approach, the raked timber wall appears to have morphed from out of the diminutive letterbox.

Yet from other perspectives the house appears to have been carved away.

The two techniques are conceptually contradictory.

he wall is a wrapped deck, cliff, upturned boat, frozen wave, verandah, internally a depository of the bric-a-brac collected on beach holidays - an essential medium for evoking family memories.