Gisborne's transparent contemporary semicircular pod home listing
With a disclosed $750,000 reserve price and 14 contract requests, the weekend auction of a striking modern home at Gisborne seems set to ignite.
The 115 Outlook Lane house, with views of Mount Macdeon, is scheduled for October 6 through Julian Davies at Keatings Real Estate.
Set above Jacksons Creek, the 1.7-hectare holding was bought in late 2007 for $340,000 by Kate and Ollie Luciano.
There are views from every room, with floor-to-ceiling glass along the entire length of the semicircular design.
The Lucianos took a sketch made on butcher's paper to the architect Design Edge, who came up with a structure designed as a series of 12 wedge-shaped segments, each supported by a framework of high-strength steel columns and beams and spanned by extra-thick laminated glass panels.
Each glass panel is a sliding door.
Its floor is polished concrete with underfloor heating.
"We wanted a home that looked as if it had landed like a pod on the earth, but which, because it is so transparent, also has a sense of being at one with the land," Kate Luciano told The Age.
They have fenced the property and planted Manchurian pears around the perimeter.
"Signature design on a sensational canvas," is how listing agent Julian Davies describes the property.
