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BEAUMARIS RESIDENCE BY STUDIOFOUR

Sarah Henry embarked on the design of her own home after almost 10 years of running architecture practice Studiofour with co-director Annabelle Berryman. Sarah’s home, Beaumaris Residence, belongs neatly within Studiofour’s body of work. Yet at the same time, the project was approached as a testing ground for new ideas and bubbling design urges; an opportunity for the practice to push ideas to extremes.

The house is located in the Melbourne suburb of Beaumaris. Sited on a sloping block, it is surrounded by bulky and uninspiring project homes and in close proximity to a busy road. In order to shut

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