The blade screens carry mortise-and-tenon joins over steel — hidden fixings, every angle offset and considered. You could just do aluminium battens. We don't.
A new home in Camberwell, drawn with Peter Barton and shaped inside by Studio Doherty. On the boards now, on the ground next.
Boulevard began the way our best work always does — around a table, early, with the architects. Peter Barton set the architecture; Studio Doherty is composing the way it will be lived in. Our part is to make the drawings hold up to touch: to take a screen that reads as a single quiet gesture from the street and build it so it stays that way for decades.
The blade screens are the tell. From a distance they look effortless — a rhythm of vertical timber that filters light and gives the facade its calm. Up close, that calm is earned. Each blade carries a mortise-and-tenon join set over a steel spine, so the timber does what timber does best and the steel does the carrying. The fixings are hidden. The angles are offset, one against the next, so the screen never reads as a flat grille — it moves as you move past it.
There is an easier road, and we know it well. You could just do a batten screen out of aluminium — cut to length, screwed to a rail, done in an afternoon. It would pass. It would not be this. The difference is measured in joins you will never see and hours the finished house will never advertise — the quiet premium of a thing made properly.
Boulevard is still in progress. What follows is the work as it stands — the intent set, the first surfaces resolved, the screens taking shape. We'll add to this record as the home comes together.
Mortise-and-tenon over steel — the old join carrying the new structure.
The screen is the project's signature and its discipline. Timber blades are morticed and tenoned in the traditional way, then set over a concealed steel frame that takes the load and holds the line true. Every fixing is hidden. Every angle is offset and considered, so the surface breathes rather than repeats. Our team executed them with the care the detail asks for — because a screen like this is either done properly or not worth doing.
You could just do a batten screen out of aluminium. These blades carry mortise-and-tenon joins over steel — hidden fixings, every angle offset and considered. Our team executed them with love and craftsmanship. It's what we do.
Prolifica · Boulevard, CamberwellCamberwell, Boroondara. Inner east Melbourne.
New Build — full architect-designed home, ground up. Bespoke timber blade screens over concealed steel.
Peter Barton & Studio Doherty. Architecture and interiors, in collaboration with Prolifica.
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