House Renovation & Extension | Hello House | OOF Architecture

The Hello House is a renovation and extension of a Victorian shophouse to accommodate a family home + artist's studio. The modest but beautiful front rooms were refreshed and its dysfunctional old back rooms demolished + replaced with new spaces more suitable for 21st century life.

Although limited in area, the comfort + generosity of the new addition is maximised by making every inch of the site’s available space visible from the main living area but protected from the busy street.....more

House Renovation | Acute House | OOF Arcitecture

Acute House is the transformation of a 'renovator's nightmare' into a compact 21st century family home. The severe limitations of a tiny, very triangular site and the demanding heritage context have resulted in a pointy new wedge of house that is designed to exploit its problems.

The original, and extremely decrepit, Victorian weatherboard cottage had become impossible to inhabit but was well loved by the neighbourhood as well as its new owners......more

Wood Cladding House | Gray House | OOF Architecure

Gray House is 2 residences expressed as a single house. It is a 21st century interpretation of ‘house-ness’ epitomized by the 1920s Arts + Crafts houses typical of this area.

The most outstanding feature of these houses are their roofs - spectacularly huge and heavy roof ‘mountains’ – carrying with them rich associations of warmth, protection, private retreat and a quality of ‘house-ness’ rarely achieved by other periods of housing. The upper storey is designed as a large roof or ‘inhabited attic’ type element over a low and heavy base with windows and balconies recessed into the roof and peeping out under roof ‘flaps’ typical of these ‘attic villas’....more