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The Books House in Mosman
Contemporary Australian Home with Pool, NSW ? design by Luigi Rosselli Architects
18 Apr 2018
The Books House
Design: Luigi Rosselli Architects
Location: Mosman, Sydney NSW, Australia
The Books House

The concrete structure of each floor is oriented differently to suit the views, and also maximise the distances from the neighbours on each side. The ?layers? are reminiscent of a stack of books, plied up on a ?table? of sandstone. The sandstone was excavated and quarried from the site and later painstakingly chiselled into shape by the stone mason, French Stonemasonry – photo © Justin Alexander A Calligrapher handed three books to his wife, she placed them in a random stack on the table? ?We want The Books House?? they said.

The dining room and the kitchen are spacious enough to have another sitting room facing the view and the balcony. The client drinks tea in that open and breezy observation deck – photo © Prue Roscoe
The Architect understood that the books were not only a reference to a home he had previously designed named The Six Degrees of Separation, but also to the ledges and shelves of Sydney-Hawkesbury sandstone outcrops that surface on the steep escarpments of the northern side of Sydney Harbour, including the block of land owned by the Calligrapher and the Businesswoman.

The wood grain of the concrete formwork contras...