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
SPRING BAY MILL_
THE TIN SHED PERFORMANCE SPACE
The Tin Shed is a 230-seat performance space set within the former bark-stripping shed adjacent to the old log deck and control tower. To frame the unique experience of attending a performance in an abandoned industrial facility, the approach was to simply clean up and add the minimum needed to provide safe access, basic amenity and flexible functionality.
A new conveyor belt-like entry bridge brings punters in on a diagonal ramble through an existing hole in the cladding, under huge pieces of machinery, and into a covered outdoor space between the old infrastructure and a new fibreglass clad wall plugging the end of the performance space from wind, rain and possums. The new wall has two large vertical bifold doors that can be raised when the weather allows and open onto a new covered deck area that provides space for audiences to mingle.
Inside, a new timber floor provides an insulated surface for audiences feet, the old metal cladding forms a shimmering silver backdrop for performances and the old beams provide support for new lighting rigs. A new toilet pod is grafted onto the side of the shed, the interiors of which playfully reference the black conveyor belts that once transported wood chips across the site. From the outside, the new additions borrow the language of the surrounding buildings, reading as if they might have always been there. The material and formal simplicity allowing the industrial qualities of the venue and the expression of the performance to be the primary foci.
Builder_ Dillon Builders
Landscaping_ Marcus Ragus
Wayfinding Signage_ Futago
Photographs Richard Jupe and Gilby + Brewin
