PEEL HOUSE

also known as HENVILLE STREET HOUSE
completed new build residence

in association under Philip Stejskal Architecture
2021, FREMANTLE

Builder: Burgio Construction
Photographer: Jack Lovell

Awarded the WA AIA Award for Residential Architecture – Houses (New) 2025
Shortlisted for Houses Award New Houses over 200 sqm 2025

A new house at the end of the street with an oblique orientation to north. The design gathered various spaces around a central outdoor space, itself defined by a double-height arbour.

The entire house is contained within a rectangular metal box that has had an outdoor space peeled away from it, leaving only a skeletal outer steel frame and rough-sawn timber clad walls at the threshold with interior space.

Over time, the framework will be overgrown with vegetation. In the meantime, retractable fabric shades provide protection from the elements from above.

Living spaces are sunken relative to this outdoor room, presenting a level change that doubles as informal seating and dramatised threshold.

The home is intentionally understated, with an emphasis on spatial arrangement and tactility of materials where it counts.