The architects wanted to break free from the typical straight-angled housing enclosure. They wanted this holiday house to be more about fun, a break from the monotony daily routine.

Rethinking the volumes in three dimensions, they stretched and distorted all the facets of the house, producing slopes and angles that create unique visual experience through spatial intersections, incidents and accidents. The result is a unique project where you would expect the unexpected.

The architects explained the ideas behind their project quite well:

The Klein bottle is a descriptive model of a surface developed by topological mathematicians.

Klein bottle, mobius strips, boy surfaces, are unique surfaces that while they may be distorted remain topologically the same. I.e. a donut will remain topologically a donut if you twist and distort it, it will only change topologically if it is cut.

Australian Architects McBride Charles Ryan like to push the creative enveloppe on each project they design. This house called Letterbox is no exception, flirting with the senses in more ways then one. We felt that the architects explained quite well their thought process, as they describe their concept.

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"It’s like a half space, half enclosed, half open. Neither in nor out – a new version of the good old Aussie verandah."