Butterfly House

The existing brick villa retains its solid, inward-looking character, and is connected to the new single-storey pavilion by a slender glazed walkway. Sitting atop a basement garage on the generously sized site, there was significant architectural freedom given to the standalone pavilion structure. It not only houses the living, dining, kitchen and ancillary spaces, but also creates new landscaped courtyards, providing access to northern sunlight and natural cross-ventilation, and maximises views of the surrounding gardens in an immersive landscape-driven interior experience.

With a bold faceted ceiling, butterfly profiled columns and pared-back materials palette, the pavilion’s interior design speaks a common language with the Swing Chair and Voom Dining Table.

The filtration of light through the interior is echoed in the sweeping curves of stainless steel tube construction of the Swing Chair. Material restraint in the pavilion’s textural palette celebrates a dialogue with the uniform powdercoated finish of the Voom Dining Table. And the sophisticated ornamentation of butterfly-profiled travertine columns and faceted oak-lined ceiling in the pavilion bring to mind the sculptural form and rigorous material experimentation of both pieces.

A balanced combination of sophisticated, sculptural and bold, Swing and Zoom, designed by Adam Goodrum, become expressions of modernity and movement that take flight in the light-filled Butterfly House.