Porous House 1, Maldon, 2015

This is one of a series of ‘porous houses’ I have designed to dissolve notions of inside and outside through the liquification of boundaries and walls. Commissioned by an artist-curator and book publisher who wanted to create an artist residency at her site in Central Victoria. I proposed to situate a residence at the bottom of foothills, in a freshwater catchment prone to annual flooding. My proposition was that access to the house would be governed by dryness and wetness; low water levels enabling access and high-water levels prohibiting access. The site sketched the parameters of the design and brief. The floor plan is figured on a jetty, projecting from the muddy perimeter of the dam into the centre. As seasonal floods caused the dam to rise and fall, water passed through the house, as a kind of funnel.