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
MORE SOON
MORE SOON
NEGATIVE / POSITIVE
Project undertaken in collaboration with students from Monash University Department of Architecture and These Are The Projects We Do Together as part of the Monash Architecture Design Make program.
Negative / Positive is a pair of circular spaces located in the void of a former arkose sandstone quarry in regional Victoria currently undergoing environmental rehabilitation. The spaces support groups to gather, contemplate the site's past, and ultimately participate in the repair and regeneration of this deeply damaged landscape.
Inspired by land art, the Negative is formed by scraping away the shallow ground surface to expose and display the underlying sandstone bedrock. This action that recalls the recent industrial activity that took place, creates an implied space for groups to gather, observe and contemplate the natural and extractive forces that define the current state of the site. The extracted earth was piled and artfully raked into a cone shape next to the negative circle making clear the volume of material removed and playfully referencing Japanese Zen gardens.
Joined to the Negative via a raised level walkway, the Positive is an amphitheatre - like space that has been assembled for groups large and small to gather in. The circular structure is positioned on top of newly filled ground in a corner of the former quarry that was previously waterlogged in winter months. The raised level was made from fill from having excavated new drainage channels across the site necessary for ongoing maintenance and rehabilitation. The Positive structure is built with 3 layers of primarily locally sourced and reused materials: a foundation of gabion cages filled with quarry rock, a wall of concrete blocks reused from a temporary pavilion in Melbourne and timber seating salvaged from a former National Gallery of Victoria summer pavilion called In Absence.
In order to form part of the rehabilitating ecology of the site, rather than being imposed on it, the Positive is assembled as a porous structure that gradually de-layers from one end to the other. The gaps between the rocks in the gabions, the core holes in the blocks, and the spaces between the timber, allows water and air to flow through and for animals to make habitat inside. Soon after construction was completed, moss, lichen and plants have started to grow on the structure, birds have been spotted making nests in the blocks, and the ground is draining effectively - all while humans have been occasionally gathering within.
Photographs by Peter Bennetts
