The Dome House is a "garden home" in a conservative Melbourne suburb. The design concept of this home was to take a pure form, the copper sphere, bury it and erode it within the conception of a giant puzzle whose components ranged from the large to the infinitesimally small.
By selectively removing parts and leaving fragments (which contain the garden shed, a seat, letterbox, cellar and meter enclosure) we gave the Dome House a unique and intimate relationship with the garden.
This strategy, though conceptually simple, had a limitless and joyous experiential complexity. Such complexity was rigorously informed by the geometry of the sphere. This is clearly a modern home, yet with its careful and fragmented quality it resonates with the picturesque sensibility of the suburb.
