Whilst it’s only possible to speculate, Kerstin Thompson’s Drum House seems to follow a very similar brief to that to the Bergren House by Mayne and Rotundi. The Bergen house was designed for a single mother who also worked as a full time scholar in a tertiary institution. The house needed to be entirely functional; there was no need for frivolous detail or aesthetic storage solutions. Practicality was king. Mayne and Rotundi focused on a circulation plan that would be as efficient as possible whilst being a healthy building to inhabit, as detailed in their quote:

“It allowed us to explore sequential movement in a way that we hadn’t before. It was very processional, it allowed us to deal with the relationship between a visual axis and an