Flexion House is a two-story contemporary residence located in Sydney, Australia, designed by Christopher Polly Architect.

Description
Flexion House is a new two-story residence located at the end of a cul-de-sac on an expansive site overlooking adjacent parklands and the Cooks River along its long northern edge. Its uniquely crafted form bends extends, and shifts in response to the shape of the site, program of rooms, and views to the river and adjacent significant landscape.
The front ground level accommodates a forked arrangement of guest living and bedroom quarters, main bathroom, garaging, and utility spaces, with substantial soft landscaped areas to the front setback. At the center of the plan, blackbutt batten screens and battened walls perform in confluence with blackbutt batten screens to an upper bridge balustrade and internal glazing to infuse a singular cohesiveness to a voluminous double-height space, which carefully veil and gradually reveal a series of public living spaces and private upper bedroom, study and living areas beyond. The interior also incorporates an overlay blackbutt timber flooring, wall linings, and joinery veneer finishes for robust clarity across the ground and upper floor spaces. A crazy-paved northern courtyard with cooking facilities and integral cantilevered concrete bench provides for outdoor dining and visually connects to the parkland and surround of a lap pool, while an eastern semi-covered blackbutt terrace provides c...