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Duplex
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Ashburton Duplex
In Ashburton, in Melbourne's east, this duplex brings a rich, dark palette and refined finishes to a quiet suburban street.
It was designed for the new work-from-home professional, with spaces that suit both focused work and family life. Pitched forms clad in dark vertical battens sit behind low brick garden walls, and the design emphasises solar access and a close relationship with the surrounding trees and landscape. The result pairs elegance with environmental care: a sophisticated home designed to be comfortable to live in and efficient to run.
Fitting two generous homes, each with real space to work from home, onto a suburban block while keeping sunlight and garden at the centre of daily life.
What are you
thinking about?
Start with the site and how you want to live.
What needs
to go right?
Cost belongs in the design conversation from the beginning.
What needs
resolving?
No polished brief required. One honest question will do.
What's
your style?
A reference is enough. There is no right answer.
Start with
one question.
Tell me what you are considering, what matters and where you need clarity.
I read these myself. You will be speaking with me, not a mysterious enquiry department.
Design &
construction
should speak.
Arkhaus is a residential design studio where ideas and making are considered as one. Beautiful homes should be as resolved in thought as they are in execution.
"A strong idea should survive the way it is built"
Experience
changes the
way you see.
Led by Fernando Banales, Arkhaus draws on 24 years in architecture and construction. Trained in architecture. Registered builder. Designer by instinct.
Our practice & projects are supported by NOX, a project management platform designed to streamline communication, coordinate decisions and maintain visibility across every stage of the process.
"Knowing how things are made changes how you design them"
The site
knows.
Every home starts with what is already there. Light. Aspect. Landscape. Privacy. Material. The way you want to live.
We listen before we draw.
Beautiful.
Logical.
Built.
Good residential design is often an exercise in restraint. Fewer gestures. Better proportions. Materials with purpose. Details that feel inevitable.
Design first. Site led. Beautifully resolved.