The brief revolved around accommodating a family including 3 children. Additions comprised 3 new bedrooms and activity space to the new first floor at the rear with a large family/kitchen area directly below. Alterations to the existing house included a new master bedroom/ensuite, study and upgrading the original grand dining room and lounge areas.
The proposed design focused on a compatible but distinctive relationship between the existing interior and external form and the new addition. This was achieved through the use of a common materiality, contrasting black brick for the new against red brick in the old. The pitched external roof forms, a requirement of stringent Heritage guidelines, were expressed as “twin peaked” gable ends that aligned directly with the double valley hip roof of the existing house. The external timber clad rainscreen was defined as a one third proportion that aligns directly with the existing slate tiled roof of the existing house. While compatible in terms of proportion and alignment, the reductive abstraction of the new interior and exterior suggests a new relationship to both the immediate garden and the greater surrounding context.......more
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