Sympathetic Sustainable Apartments? | Slate House in Brighton by Austin Maynard Architects

[@mattkeller9667]

It's getting rarer with the cost of development to see buildings that still work so well in the surrounding context! Great content and editing.

[@Archimarathon]

Thanks.

[@aldrichjohn10]

Really love the house, the discussion and the design principles. Also well done to Austin Maynard Architects and the team of developers.

[@Archimarathon]

Yes it’s great that the developers are brave enough to do this.

[@dylanslattery4530]

Wow! This really changed my opinion on 'apartments'. I had no desire to create these small minimum sized boxes, but Andrew really puts it into perspective just how livable they can be. Really appreciate these video's, very inspiring and highly insightful. Thanks Kev and Andrew.

[@mgjones03]

Yessss!!! Time for well designed and efficient higher density housing. Awesome plans.

[@Archimarathon]

Yes it’s great to see. Not what I expected

[@Alpine1]

Fantastic video

[@Archimarathon]

Thanks

[@harpersherman2753]

Always a pleasure watching these tours, love the work AMA!

[@Archimarathon]

Glad you enjoyed it even though it’s not built yet.

[@ethanscotney9999]

Amazing video, loved the hardwood detail in the kitchen with the brass handles, they would age nicely as people use the space :)

[@Archimarathon]

Yeah it’s pretty special

[@dylanfardon88]

I love that aging effect! The process is called forming a patina if you didn't know

[@ethanscotney9999]

@@dylanfardon88 ahh, thanks. word slipped my mind for a bit there :)

[@leonroberts7095]

Wow that’s just amazing! I’m starting my first year in university in September! I can’t wait for the journey ahead. You guys are my inspiration and I aspire to be like you both

[@Archimarathon]

Good luck

[@simeonjamison3034]

Awesome. Really enjoyed the exploring of the context!

[@Archimarathon]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@mabelix7622]

I got so excited watching this video. It's a beautiful design and it's right in my local area!

[@Archimarathon]

It’s really shaping up now compared to when we filmed this

[@mabelix7622]

That's exciting! I should check it out :P

[@ISCDesignArchitect]

Great lessons; 'avoiding the big white box;' and learning from the context.

[@unnatirawal8860]

Interesting discussion!

[@gabybordino6024]

Nice video, guys! Slate House is amazing. And a great lesson about taking context as an advantage. Beautiful

[@Archimarathon]

Thanks. It was a bit difficult to talk about a yet to be built project and make it entertaining and informative

[@Archimarathon]

I hope also you had a good feel of that part of melbourne

[@gabybordino6024]

​@@Archimarathon Indeed! It was great in so many levels (Andrew may love to say didactic, I guess). Also, I always loved these tiny beach houses, another thing to think about a trip to Melbourne someday :)

[@Archimarathon]

Yes we tried to make it fun for our international audience as well

[@stefanspasov2385]

Great channel, big inspiration, i learn so much from every single video and makes me excited and happy that i choose the path of architecture. Thank you : )

[@Archimarathon]

Thanks Stefan. Are you on our discord channel discussing architecture and other fun bits yet?

[@stefanspasov2385]

@@Archimarathon on it thanks !

[@kasbox4079]

Love this video.. love you guys.. keep up the great work.

[@Archimarathon]

Thanks!

[@HT-lb7ph]

Another great episode. Love the small details that makes big difference. What if the drawer and robes handles are pressed in like a car door handle, so u have a smooth finish. 🤔

[@Archimarathon]

More routing out work and it’s a different look, way busier

[@taracull-archienglish5174]

Amazing video. Love the brolls of Brighton Made me miss Melbourne 😭

[@Archimarathon]

Glad you liked it.

[@taracull-archienglish5174]

@@Archimarathon It’s my favourite so far. I think it was brilliant how you put a lot of emphasis on the surrounding context and how they influence the detail of the house. Not enough new developments in Brighton so this as you pointed out. So true about houses in Europe! It’s just part of everyday life here but Slate house is a much better example everything a design should consider. Well done again.

[@Archimarathon]

Favourite so far? Big call!

[@taracull-archienglish5174]

@@Archimarathon yes but I love the brighton boxes

[@urbancolab]

Glad to hear the client was driving for passive house. It is very hard to stick to it as construction costs rise

[@shauniron9563]

jesus ... what a beautifull place ... i really love to meet these place's myself

[@Archimarathon]

It’s being built now.

[@romanmamus]

Great project! The scenery makes me want to visit, despite the hostile fauna :)

[@Archimarathon]

Lol. It’s all in your head

[@romanmamus]

@@Archimarathon idk the funnel web spider sounds pretty terrifying

[@Archimarathon]

Never seen one in my life

[@romanmamus]

@@Archimarathon hmmm. I'll have to reconsider. And you guys have Utes too, which is pretty awesome

[@panosmiltiadou5645]

Soo Good ! Love this!

[@Archimarathon]

It’s a great project.

[@WelcomeToSteph]

Where do I sign?! Also, love the vlog vibe of this edit at the start.

[@Archimarathon]

It’s a good way to snippet intro the area and mask Andrew’s fantastic filming

[@Nynke_K]

It's true that apartment buildings make sense to me as a European (as do toilets next to front doors because that's *literally* every Dutch house since they started building indoor toilets), but calling a three-bedroom apartment 'downsizing' did not! lol. It started to make more sense when all the other apartments turned out to be smaller! The access to outdoor green spaces is the big thing missing from most apartments, and something that would keep me from moving into one, so it definitely seems like this is something the world needs more of. Especially if the apartments are really well soundproofed :).

[@Archimarathon]

My parents recently downsized too but yeah their apartment is huge compared to most others. They don’t miss their old house where they have spent the longest at any point in their lives.

[@eminayduran]

When i'm watching your videos, i'm thinking; yes there are bunch of architects out of there who they are real and good one which they don't have starchitect's illisions. I like your thinking process on making projects and your analizing way of the other architects jobs, both of you. This sentences written by who don't have good english skills an architect, if the meaning seems confused, i'm sorry. Thank you for your sharing videos.

[@efeoz8131]

Very nice, great success.

[@Archimarathon]

You mean the squid fishing? 🦑

[@efeoz8131]

Sick finishes tho.

[@Archimarathon]

Fully

[@mv80401]

"facing north you get lots of passive solar in there" - as a northern hemisphere guy this caught my attention :)

[@Archimarathon]

Yes I keep forgetting that I need to remind Northern Hemisphereans that the sun comes from the north for us.

[@mv80401]

@@Archimarathon -- I read a rumor once that initially the British colonizers of Australia kept placing large windows on the south side. If it were true it's a perfect illustration that people are creatures of habit rather than reason.

[@Archimarathon]

I don’t think the British cared about orientation at all.

[@Dwhpshaz]

I live in Brighton so watching this gives me hope of a white box free future. Also, Rob mills needs to be banned from the area. That monstrosity on church st makes me angry every time I pass it. They didn’t film it but there’s two beautiful old heritage castle like houses right next to it and it looks so jarring. Why is it legal to do this...

[@Archimarathon]

I do like a good white box if it’s good but most of the Brighton ones seems to be very large and scale seems to be a problem, even the single houses ones are gigantic. There was an old single storey modernist home we walked past on Male Street that seemed elegant and subtle. But yeah I guess money talks, especially in a place like Brighton. It’s great that this developer is trying to break the trend.

[@Dwhpshaz]

Yeah I agree - did not mean to generalise all the white boxes out there haha also I recognise that it’s all subjective anyways as obviously there are clients out there who like this sort of style. So scale and respect for the context really does seem to be the issue. Anyways I love the content from this channel! Amazing videos.

[@Archimarathon]

Thanks. Please share the love. Yes things don’t have to be homogeneous but yes scale and “conversation” is the issue

[@RB-zm4fk]

Nothing like a good banter between old friends. Croquet always makes me think about Alice in Wonderland 🏌‍♀️

[@Archimarathon]

Or croquettes!!

[@RB-zm4fk]

I think I like your version more 😄

[@juanricardomartinez9228]

Saludos desde MEXICO

[@KINGSPOINT.NY.2024]

Apartments 2.0....great designs meets function and aesthetics....and then there was the CROQUET issue...LOL!!

[@angelaballard3929]

Beautiful work but please, subvert the dominant new world paradigm of 'forever home' (and therefore great design) as only belonging to the property owning class only. European nations manage that. So its time we got with the program!

[@Archimarathon]

It’s a political issue. We need good housing policies. For that we need to vote in good politicians.

[@angelaballard3929]

@@Archimarathon no not necessarily entirely. Build to Rent (BTR) as an asset management model changes the paradigm away from the build crap for investor capital gain (at the homelife expense of people who rent) to a focus on quality build and community driven by the developer.

[@Archimarathon]

Property owning class is still part of the sustainability and densification equation too. This is Brighton and Andrew was working within the constraints set by the developer for this project.

[@Simon-Simon-Simon]

modernist boxed - tho who designed the 1800s slate boxes the British love kevin's work but RESCODE is a load of $%^&*( that's why we get this language think melbourne has lost it with mono chromatic colors some color but on the other hand melb has these patchwork facades that look like vegas to get around rescode melbourne has kind of lost the plot in design there are "brighton white" knock off's copies