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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MONASH COLLEGE
Lyons with NMBW Architecture Studio, Studiobird, Glas Urban, Gilby + Brewin Architecture
The Monash College project is an adaptive reuse of a former bank office in Melbourne's Docklands – transforming and repurposing a huge corporate building into a new education campus. The project involves over 40,000m2 of refurbished space to accommodate a complex educational brief as a ‘vertical village’ – including 180 teaching and learning spaces, a range of specialist learning areas, informal student spaces, and accommodation for 700 teaching staff. Monash College is a so-called ‘pathway program’ for international and local students to develop their skills for future enrollment within Monash University higher degree courses.
Gilby + Brewin worked on levels 5 through to 10, specifically the unique figure 8 circulation path that laps around the two central service cores of the building to form a ‘campus loop’, a new general access stair that links these upper levels of the building, and a number of ‘breakout’ spaces across each of the 5 levels. These new spaces include a series of 1, 2 and 4 person booths that line the ‘loop’, providing a mix of spaces for study, socialising and meeting, helping to activate the centre of the deep floorplate. As part of the 'wayfinding' strategy, the design of each level of booths is based on a particular building from the four Monash campuses where students will eventually study at once they leave the college.
Photographs by Dianna Snape
