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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Gilby + Brewin is an architecture practice with studios in Melbourne and Hobart, Australia. The practice undertakes culturally, socially and environmentally responsible projects across a range of urban scales and settings.
Gilby + Brewin are adept in formulating and delivering considered architectural responses to challenging existing conditions that range from greenfields to post-industrial landscapes and from regional townships to dense inner-city urban areas. This ability extends from an attitude that all projects, including new buildings are kinds of renovations to existing built settings and a deep interest in the way that new architecture can be placed in productive dialogue with the things, times, and lives that have come before.
Towards this end, at the outset of any project the practice engages in a process of careful observation and documentation of existing physical conditions, which combined with historical research and thorough stakeholder engagement ‘draws out’ appropriate ways to ‘act’ to ultimately produce something new. We believe this approach produces a deeply contextualised architecture that supports and enriches the human experience of spaces and places whilst resonating with, and making a positive contribution to the surrounding built, landscape and ecological setting.
KEY PEOPLE
Ross Brewin
b. Leicester, UK, Lives and works in Hobart and Melbourne, Australia
Professional Qualifications
_Registered Architect (Victoria + Tasmania)
_Master of Architecture (Research)_ RMIT Urban Architecture Laboratory
_Bachelor of Architecture_ Curtin University
_Bachelor of Applied Science (Architectural Science)_ Curtin University
Professional Experience
_g+ba/u_ 2011 ongoing
_ba/u_ 2007 > 2011
_iredale pedersen hook architects_ 1999 > 2007
Academic Experience
_Senior Lecturer at Monash University_ 2008 > ongoing
_Design Studio Leader - RMIT University_ 2004 > 2007
_Design Studio Assistant - Curtin University_ 2002 > 2004
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Anna Gilby
b. Hobart, Australia, Lives and works in Hobart and Melbourne, Australia
Professional Qualifications
_Master of Architecture_ RMIT University
_Bachelor of Fine Art (Sculpture)_ RMIT University
_Bachelor of Planning and Design_ Melbourne University
Professional Experience
_g+ba/u_ 2011 > current
_Loop 8 Architecture_2009 > 2011
_Peter Elliott Architecture + Urban Design_2005 > 2008
_Robert Simeoni Architect_ 2003
_Six Degrees Architects_ 2000 > 2001
Academic Experience
_Design Studio Leader - Monash University_ 2014 > ongoing
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Shing Hei Ho
b. Melbourne, Australia, Lives and Works in Melbourne
Professional Qualifications
_ Master of Architecture_ Monash University
_ Master of Film and Television (Documentary)_ VCA, University of Melbourne
_ Bachelor of Architecture_ Monash University
Professional Experience
_g+ba/u_ 2015 > current
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With dedicated assistance over the years from:
David Pesavento
Justin Mallia
Amy Tung
Nina Tory-Henderson
Andrew Power
Piers Morgan
Loki Harris
Andy Lim
Hang Jiang
AWARDS
RIDGE QUARTERS GROUP ACCOMMODATION
2022 Australian Institute of Architects National Architecture Awards:
> AWARD for SUSTAINABLE ARCHITECTURE
2022 Australian Institute of Architects Tasmanian Chapter Architecture Awards:
> AWARD for SUSTAINABLE ARCHITECTURE
> AWARD for COMMERCIAL ARCHITECTURE
2022 Architeam Awards
> WINNER - ARCHITEAM MEDAL
> WINNER - SUSTAINABILITY MEDAL
> WINNER - COMMERCIAL, COMMUNITY & PUBLIC AWARD
2023 Australian Institute of Architects Tasmanian Chapter Architecture Awards:
> THE JOHN LEE ARCHER TRIENNIAL PRIZE
2021 Australian Institute of Architects Tasmanian Chapter Architecture Awards:
> THE BARRY MCNEILL AWARD for SUSTAINABLE ARCHITECTURE
> THE ROY SHARRINGTON SMITH AWARD for HERITAGE ARCHITECTURE
> AWARD for PUBLIC ARCHITECTURE
2019 Houses Magazine Awards:
> COMMENDATION for SUSTAINABILITY
2018 Australian Institute of Architects Tasmanian Chapter Architecture Awards:
> AWARD for SMALL PROJECT ARCHITECTURE
2014 Australian Institute of Architects Western Australian Chapter Awards
> COMMENDATION for NEW HOUSE
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS + PUBLICATIONS
> Exhibited at the Venice Biennale, Italy_ 2023
> Published in Architecture Australia (Jul-Aug 2022) - Article by Helen Norrie
> Exhibited at the Venice Biennale, Italy_ 2018
> Published in Architecture Australia - Article by Richard Black
> Featured in New Suburban book - by Stuart Harrison
> Exhibited at Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, Australia_ 2013
> Exhibited at Aedes Gallery, Berlin_ 2011
PROFESSIONAL REGISTRATION AND MEMBERSHIP
