{"id":494280,"date":"2026-01-05T14:45:18","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T14:45:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/494280\/"},"modified":"2026-01-05T14:45:18","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T14:45:18","slug":"industrial-port-informs-metal-exterior-of-henville-street-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/494280\/","title":{"rendered":"Industrial port informs metal exterior of Henville Street House"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Fremantle cargo port informed the corrugated metal<\/a> cladding and steel-framed awnings of Henville Street House, a family home<\/a> in Perth<\/a>, Australia, by local studio Philip Stejskal Architecture.<\/p>\n

Located on a compact urban site, Philip Stejskal Architecture<\/a> designed the home to have a close relationship to its garden while avoiding overlooking.<\/p>\n

It is organised around a patio and has a skeletal steel frame that will gradually be overgrown by climbing plants.<\/p>\n

\"HenvillePhilip Stejskal Architecture has completed a family home in Perth<\/p>\n

“It\u2019s a simple project constrained by budget and a challenging site,” studio founder Philip Stejskal told Dezeen.<\/p>\n

“The design consists of a literal box clad in corrugated iron, harking back to the original workers cottages of the area,” he continued.<\/p>\n

“This is able to withstand the harsh coastal environment, does not require maintenance and provides a cost-effective solution.”<\/p>\n

\"GardenCorrugated metal and steel-framed awnings reference a nearby cargo port<\/p>\n

With a one-metre level change from the north to south of the site, the home was positioned so that its sunken living, dining and kitchen spaces step up into the garden. Here, a large sill doubles as a seating area alongside large sliding glass doors.<\/p>\n

Passing through this threshold, Henville Street House opens out onto a patio that Stejskal calls an “outdoor room”, sheltered by a double-height steel frame.<\/p>\n

\"ViewA sunken living, dining and kitchen area steps up to the garden<\/p>\n

The upper section of this frame has been clad in metal grilles that will gradually be overgrown by climbing plants, with the same grilles used to create a low fence around the home.<\/p>\n

Shaded by a retractable awning, this steel frame also incorporates a terrace for the three bedrooms on the first floor, and wraps around to the front of the home, where it forms a small awning above the entrance and garage.<\/p>\n

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Nick Kent Design designs Bondi House as steel-framed “kit of parts”\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

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“The outdoor room is enveloped in a vertical trellis that will green over time, and roofed by a retractable fabric awning,” explained Stejskal.<\/p>\n

“In winter, the deciduous green wall opens up to embrace the sun, whilst in summer it offers protection and gives the owners another room for outdoor living and dining,” he added.<\/p>\n

\"InteriorThe interior is lined with dark Australian hardwoods<\/p>\n

Inside Henville Street House, the industrial-style metalwork of the exterior is contrasted by pale curtains and dark Australian hardwoods used for built-in storage and wall linings.<\/p>\n

Facing the garden, the internal facades are clad in narrow, vertical battens, which have also been used at the base of a window at the front of the home.<\/p>\n

\"BedroomPale curtains cloak full-height windows<\/p>\n

Elsewhere in Australia, Studio Bright created a blockwork home in Melbourne that is wrapped by metal mesh screens<\/a>, which will gradually be covered with climbing plants to form a leafy arbour shading its interiors.<\/p>\n

Other Australian houses recently featured on Dezeen include Bondi House, a steel-framed “kit of parts” by Nick Kent Design<\/a>, and an off-grid home in the Victorian Alps by Rob Mills Architecture & Interiors<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The photography is by Jack Lovel<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Fremantle cargo port informed the corrugated metal cladding and steel-framed awnings of Henville Street House, a family…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":494281,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[648,1032,4740,129024,188305,1033,171,6029,981,14737,25017,92915,92916,24807,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-494280","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-arts","9":"tag-arts-and-design","10":"tag-australia","11":"tag-australian-houses","12":"tag-corrugated-metal","13":"tag-design","14":"tag-entertainment","15":"tag-houses","16":"tag-metal","17":"tag-perth","18":"tag-residential-architecture-and-interiors","19":"tag-sectionall","20":"tag-sectionarchitecture","21":"tag-steel","22":"tag-united-states","23":"tag-unitedstates","24":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115843034350220910","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=494280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494280\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/494281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=494280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=494280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=494280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}