As Seen In The Local Project · From the Builder
Currawong House
A secluded home on Arakwal Country, built in partnership with Olive Cooke and Henry Tervenski — told from the builder's bench.
Published
08 / 03 / 2022
Location
Ewingsdale, NSW
Build
Morada Build
Words
Morada Build
Photography
Andy MacPherson
Currawong House began the way most of our projects do — over a long conversation about how a house ought to feel before it ought to look. Olive and Henry had bought an acre in Ewingsdale and wanted a sanctuary: two zones, a courtyard between them, and nothing in the way of the view to the trees.
From a builder's perspective, that simplicity is the hard part. A flat roof on a white rendered box hides nothing. Every junction has to land. We set out the slab to the millimetre, ran our render in long uninterrupted runs, and detailed the eaves so the shadow line reads as a single drawn pencil mark across the elevation.
Davis Architects' drawings were tight; our job was to keep them that way through wet weather, hard deadlines, and the small daily decisions a set of plans can't predict. The result is a house that feels inevitable — as if the paddock had asked for it.
CURRAWONG
A Modernist Inspired Dream Home — Olive Cooke & Henry Tervenski
Featured In Issue No. 08 — The Local Project
Render run in single passes, hand-troweled. No control joints in sight.
Walnut joinery from a single mill run; quartzite matched across the island and splashback.
“The ultimate goal was for a sanctuary, which I think we'll get once the landscaping matures.”
— Henry Tervenski
Materials
- — White through-coloured render
- — Walnut joinery — kitchen, living
- — Polished concrete floors
- — Quartzite, single-block island
- — Solid brass tapware
Makers
- Architecture — Davis Architects
- Interior Design — Olive Cooke
- Build — Morada Build
- Landscape — Cooke Landscape Architecture
- Landscape Install — Fig Landscapes
- Photography — Andy MacPherson
