CARLTON NORTH TERRACE
A two storey extension to an inner city victorian terrace on a spatially constrained site with poor orientation. The extension incorporates European standard passive-house principles and technologies including air tightness, thermally broken timber double glazed windows, high levels of insulation, minimal thermal bridging and heat recovery ventilation.
Remaining of the old part of the terrace house are two bedrooms and a hallway at the end of which is a new tight sealed 'middle door' that opens into the hermetically sealed new addition.
Downstairs is a new bathroom and open plan kitchen, dining, living that opens onto a rear courtyard.
The stair between levels is comprised of three parts - a section of folded steel dangling above the edge of the kitchen benchtop, abutted by a movable stepped storage unit on wheels.
The upstairs is the private domain of the owner - bedroom, ensuite, and a glazed wintergarden positioned between the old and new parts of the house to catch north sun for growing plants and vegetables - and washing and drying clothes.
Landscape design by James Dawson Design
Photographs by Graeme Boyle
CARLTON NORTH TERRACE
A two storey extension to an inner city victorian terrace on a spatially constrained site with poor orientation. The extension incorporates European standard passive-house principles and technologies including air tightness, thermally broken timber double glazed windows, high levels of insulation, minimal thermal bridging and heat recovery ventilation.
Remaining of the old part of the terrace house are two bedrooms and a hallway at the end of which is a new tight sealed 'middle door' that opens into the hermetically sealed new addition.
Downstairs is a new bathroom and open plan kitchen, dining, living that opens onto a rear courtyard.
The stair between levels is comprised of three parts - a section of folded steel dangling above the edge of the kitchen benchtop, abutted by a movable stepped storage unit on wheels.
The upstairs is the private domain of the owner - bedroom, ensuite, and a glazed wintergarden positioned between the old and new parts of the house to catch north sun for growing plants and vegetables - and washing and drying clothes.
Landscape design by James Dawson Design
Photographs by Graeme Boyle
CARLTON NORTH TERRACE
A two storey extension to an inner city victorian terrace on a spatially constrained site with poor orientation. The extension incorporates European standard passive-house principles and technologies including air tightness, thermally broken timber double glazed windows, high levels of insulation, minimal thermal bridging and heat recovery ventilation.
Remaining of the old part of the terrace house are two bedrooms and a hallway at the end of which is a new tight sealed 'middle door' that opens into the hermetically sealed new addition.
Downstairs is a new bathroom and open plan kitchen, dining, living that opens onto a rear courtyard.
The stair between levels is comprised of three parts - a section of folded steel dangling above the edge of the kitchen benchtop, abutted by a movable stepped storage unit on wheels.
The upstairs is the private domain of the owner - bedroom, ensuite, and a glazed wintergarden positioned between the old and new parts of the house to catch north sun for growing plants and vegetables - and washing and drying clothes.
Landscape design by James Dawson Design
Photographs by Graeme Boyle
SWANSEA ACCESSIBLE LOO
A new fully accessible toilet on the main street of Swansea from which a stunning view across Oyster Bay towards the Freycinet Peninsula is afforded (from the sitting position via one way glass). The structure is carefully positioned under a copse of mature eucalypts at the end of an existing lookout deck and directly opposite a pedestrian crossing from the local museum and tourist information centre. The back of the toilet uses the proximity of an existing drystone wall to make a wind protected gathering space for small groups of people - waiting to use the loo, sheltering from the strong nor-easter, or perhaps just hanging out.
Photographs by Anna Gilby + Ross Brewin
SWANSEA ACCESSIBLE LOO
A new fully accessible toilet on the main street of Swansea from which a stunning view across Oyster Bay towards the Freycinet Peninsula is afforded (from the sitting position via one way glass). The structure is carefully positioned under a copse of mature eucalypts at the end of an existing lookout deck and directly opposite a pedestrian crossing from the local museum and tourist information centre. The back of the toilet uses the proximity of an existing drystone wall to make a wind protected gathering space for small groups of people - waiting to use the loo, sheltering from the strong nor-easter, or perhaps just hanging out.
Photographs by Anna Gilby + Ross Brewin
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PICARD HOUSE
One of the last houses to be built in a residential subdivision along the coast south of Fremantle that has all but erased the area's industrial heritage to make way for a cluster of mostly nondescript suburban homes. Explicitly intending to mark the (recent) history of the site, the house draws inspiration from the factories and warehouses that once occupied the area, reinterpreting these utilitarian building typologies to form a house that embodies the aesthetic and generous qualities of living in a warehouse. For this family of five, the generous provision of space and volume has been prioritised and the use of material and detailing has been kept simple, robust and direct including exposed brick, burnished concrete, butt-jointed plywood, strapped fibre cement sheet and lapped polycarbonate.
The house incorporates a central courtyard that creates a sheltered outdoor space and a means of getting light and air deep into the long plan and has a terrace at the northern end that engages with the public park opposite. Dual sliding doors offer flexible partitioning between these outdoor spaces that are set either side of the main internal living space. Upstairs, the design of the roof deploys an industrial saw tooth profile to create a large upstairs volume, using the sawtooths to spatially divide the large common area and permit diffuse light into the series of rooms strung along the narrow plan. The house is bordered on both sides by wide neighbouring houses and challenges the zero side boundary planning design guideline by bringing each side wall in from the boundary to ensure cross ventilation to all rooms can be achieved.
The two short elevations reference the proportions of old factory glazing and utilise shading elements made from recycled raw steel. The pergola at the northern end will, in time, be covered with a deciduous vine that will provide shade in summer and allow the sun to enter the house in winter. All of the steel used in the project is upcycled from a nearby industrial facility, including the shading elements, the structural beams and columns, stair stringers and balustrades, and gate mesh. Disused timber scaffolding planks are also reused as the courtyard and terrace decks. The garage is clad in translucent polycarbonate, naturally lighting this typically dark space and creating the possibility that it could be used for something other than parking the car.
Project Collaborator: David Barr
> Awarded in the 2019 Houses Magazine Awards in the Sustainability category
Photographs by Dion Robeson
