Home Inspired

Living Pod, an apartment unit designed by Joey Ho Design is inspired by nature and incorporates its leafy surroundings into living spaces. Three young brothers and sisters are owners of the apartment so it’s designed in very modern iPod-like style. Curved shapes are a backbone of the design. A streamlined wall feature horizontally and vertically wraps around the living space, protruding from the walls, creating large floor-to-ceiling curves that alter the shape of the space. In the living room two curving sofa chairs dominate the view. To keep focus on design features, the apartment is predominately white and an epoxy resin floor reveals reflections like a pond. Green was used in the painting to reinforce the natural setting.Designed by Australian studio Paul Morgan Architects this house situated on an expansive property in Australia’s South-Eastern state of Victoria. The four-bedroom house is inspired by surround conditions of this exposed rural setting. It is self-sustaining in a remote and harsh environment without existing services. The house was sited high enough to maximize the view from the house but low enough so that the view of the brow of the hill and the silhouette of trees was not disturbed. Strathbogie granite, quarried from the site itself, creates a warm and tactile backdrop in several rooms and its inherent colours determined the palette of autumnal colours, with rich timber stains. That make house design very warm and habitual. Linear design elements in the interior add it touch of modernism. The house also incorporates passive and active thermal devices like roof mounted wind scoops with electrically powered louvers allow for air ventilation from southerly wind as well as the purging of warm air during summer.