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A home for a family who wished to transform a fairly standard new suburban box into a sustainable, light filled family home.
The transformation of the house has been used as a reference point by the local residents group as an exemplar of a project where the built form and the mixed palette of materials is appropriate for its suburban context and is good sustainable practice.
In response to the client’s brief, we created a sustainable, light filled home where solar gain was dramatically increased through the use of a void space that also serves to link the upper and lower levels. The inside now cleverly links to the outside with flowing connections to the garden making this a very liveable home for a young family.
The client’s brief was for an energy efficient, contemporary home within which to raise their two young children. The existing home had little connection to the outside and was poorly oriented on the block with a general lack of light and space. The clients had recently renovated the kitchen and wished to retain it if possible.
In developing the client’s brief an adventurous approach to materiality allowed for the use of new and locally permissible materials such as Zincalume cladding.
“we are really happy with the house and it is a tribute to all the hard work of you (TT Architecture), Wayne (the builder) and his team”
– Toby and Frankie
This renovation extension project directly responses to the client’s/user’s brief and expectations. The clients were living overseas and required modifications to their house to make it suitable for a young family on their return. The design process for the project was largely carried out ‘in the ether’.
The key difficulties in design arose with the need to deal with the existing sub-optimal bones of building and craft seamless external relationships. The problematic orientation was able to be solved by adding an additional story and ‘opening up’ the northern corner of the building allowing sunlight into the main living areas.
The original house was poorly configured for good energy efficiency and addressing this deficiency became essential plan for the remodelling exercise.
The use of recycled materials (including the repurposed and relocated kitchen) and the improvements in the insulation levels of all aspects of the building fabric both contribute to a successful environmental outcome on a limited budget.
RAIA
MWT Small projects award 2016
