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The interior of the house was comparable to caves occupying small spaces and volumes. The invention of these structural moves were developed by Borland using metal columns for the front porch will later failed and buckled due to the expansion of the material and the movement of the form work.
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for a young couple, whose open mindedness and excitement for progressive/alternative ways of living allowed quite a different archetype for housing, the house is notable for its unusual construction technique and use of materials. Rice House was the first experiment of three architectural
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Borland turned to a method that had been used by the Italian Air Force during World War 2 for its hangar construction in North Africa. A system which had then later been patented by J H de W Waller, an Australian/Irish engineer.
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This particular technique was the first of three buildings to be constructed. The other buildings include the Wood House and Supermarket designed by
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RVIA Small Homes Service saw them fall in love with modern housing design. An attempt to meet with
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at RVIA Small Homes Service led Harrie and Lorna to meet their architect Kevin Borland.
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Young artist Harrie Rice and wife Lorna were a young couple whose exposure to
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Image showing the anchoring details for the original concrete walkway
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in 1953 all in which directly reference the Rice House.
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in 1952, and Bellfield Community Centre designed by
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