Article source: Mihaly Slocombe 

Joyful House is a fun and brightly coloured addition to a weatherboard worker’s cottage on the outskirts of Geelong.

With the arrival of their third child, our clients asked us to open the rear of their house to provide a variety of light-filled spaces for their energetic young family. Our intervention retains original bedrooms, adding new services and a multifunctional living room that opens onto the generous back garden. The addition contrasts in colour and form to the original cottage and surrounding streetscape, a black-clad counterpoint to white weatherboard.

Street, Image Courtesy © Tatjana Plitt

• Architects: Mihaly Slocombe (Mihaly Slocombe, Warwick Mihaly, Erica Slocombe, Jake Taylor)
• Project: Joyful House
• Location: Victoria, Geelong, Australia
• Photography: Tatjana Plitt
  
• Project team:
  
  • Land Surveyor: Dickson Hearn
  • Quantity Surveyor: Cost Planner
  • Building surveyor: Just Building Surveying Solutions
  • Builder: Little Constructions
  • Stylist: Pip and Coop
    
• Site Area: 497sqm
• Building Area: 220sqm
• Original Construction: Early 1900s
• Design Period: February 2013 – February 2015
• Construction Period: February 2015 – June 2016
• Completion: 3rd June 2016

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