The Cloud House in Melbourne by McBride Charles Ryan

The Cloud House by McBride Charles Ryan Architect is an addition ad renovation to a double fronted Edwardian house in Fritroy North.

Over the course of close to a century, this house has received several additions and modifications. The street facade has been left to demonstrate the clients respect for evolution of the character of the area and the modest street alteration belies the extend of the comprehensive internal renovation work.

A simple platform of kitchen, dining and living has been wrapped with an extruded undulating wall that – in cross-section at least – resembles a cloud. Hence the nickname.

The curving walls – like the floor – are clad in strips of timber and the three- dimensional form suggests an inverted skate bowl. Inside and outside are mediated by a carefully detailed glass wall that all but disappears.