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Duplex
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Malabar Duplex
This Malabar duplex works within the NSW development guidelines while pushing beyond conventional duplex design.
It uses reverse living: the living spaces are on the top floor, where they take in the expansive views and the light. Bedrooms sit below in a grounded timber-clad base, while the upper floor is expressed as board-marked concrete forms with deep-set windows framing the outlook. Coastal grasses and olive trees soften the street front, redefining what coastal living can look like within Sydney's planning limits.
Capturing coastal views from a standard suburban duplex site while staying inside the height and planning limits of the NSW guidelines.
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.