Located in Albert Park, this project explores the potentials of contemporary living within neighbourhoods of high heritage value. The small 10m x 20m corner site is dominated by a red brick and terracotta roofed Edwardian era home, a building that offers a great deal to the street, but is limited in its amenity for the residents.
The proposal removes the existing sprawling service spaces and inconvenient left over courtyard of the house, and reorients the living zones of the home to the centre of the block. The living and kitchen spaces are able to be opened up to the sunlight through large expanses of glazing, and a large central courtyard creates opportunities for visual connections, entertaining and a safe play space.
Tucked neatly behind a weatherboard house in Melbourne’s leafy north‐east sits a two‐storey modular extension that is bold yet refined and has transformed the way the clients live.
In need of extra space for their growing family the clients decided to employ a modular solution and extend their home rather than move. The extension is open, filled with natural light and beautifully compliments its leafy suburban location.
The project is a rear-yard extension to a two-storey, semi-detached single-family home. The singularity of the project is in its form and siting, resulting from the history of the property.
Initially, the lot was a passageway between two houses. This “alley” was an integral part of the adjacent lot. Then the owner built an extension, encroaching on the alley. A few years later, the owner’s son decided to take over the remaining space to construct a bachelor unit. As a result, the intermediate space between the two lots now contained a new, two-storey unit. Over the years, the lot was subdivided and became one of the smallest occupied lots in Montreal, with a width of only 1.47 m at its narrowest part. The bachelor unit was put up for sale and bought by the current owner, who did not know that a part of one of the walls did not belong to him and that the plumbing was shared with the adjacent property!
The clients wanted to stay in their Victorian home but wanted to improve the connection to their surrounding landscape. Achieving this connection was realised through increasing light levels into the house through doubling the size of the existing kitchen by extending into the shady, under-used side return, and converting the loft into a master bedroom suite to enjoy views over the parkland beyond – a rare privilege in zone 2.
Once a crowded property with an aging bungalow and a commercial storefront, this live/work complex accommodates the architect’s growing family and practice. The expansion to the recently remodeled bungalow includes a new family room, exterior courtyard and deck, an attic conversion and stair hall. The storefront building, with its several bootleg additions, previously took up half of the site, exceeding the allowable floor area for the property and leaving little open space. In order to make space for the new yard and the 620 square feet of additions to the house, over 600 square feet of the storefront was demolished. To keep costs down, the architect did all of the construction with the help of a two-man crew over the course of almost 5 years.
The decision to extend this existing house by adding a new level was to provide new areas while preserving the memories of the family. The History continues with the next generations now inhabiting the house.
This refurbishment and extension project in Hackney, adds a new kitchen, WC and sunken bath to an existing ground floor apartment. The project references early 20th century concrete installations and Japanese theories on aesthetics and materiality. The client requested a bath specifically designed for relaxation and warming which follows the principles of ritual bathing. The kitchen includes a bespoke copper worktop and backsplash, designed to develop a patina over time.
The main aim of the project was to create a sense of unity between the back garden and the house, allowing nature to play a significant part in the daily activities of the family.
As the family extended the residents have preferred to enlarge their home rather than moving elsewhere, as they are in love with their neighborhood and the city. Adding the extension in inner courtyard architects divided the house in two separate partitions.
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