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Bold conceptual approach for adding a open kitchen to a semi-detached home

Bold conceptual approach for adding a open kitchen to a semi-detached home - Dulwich Hill Residence (1)

The 2015 Australian Timber Design Awards were announced September 18 at an awards night in Melbourne. For the category Residential Class 1 – Alteration or Addition winner was Dulwich Hill Residence by CplusC Architectural Workshop.

Description by CplusC: The design brief for the Dulwich Hill Residence called for the addition of an open kitchen, outdoor living space, dining, bathroom and laundry to an existing semi-detached period home for a young family with four children under four years old including triplets.

Bold conceptual approach for adding a open kitchen to a semi-detached home - Dulwich Hill Residence (3)

A bold conceptual approach has been taken to accentuate the bathroom and laundry as a feature to the rear of the home. Large sliding doors disappear seamlessly into the egg-shaped bathroom and laundry pod, allowing the internal living space to extend outdoors.

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Concealed retractable flyscreens have been designed to completely screen the kitchen and dining space when the glazed sliding doors are opened. When both sliding doors and retractable flyscreens are completely opened there is no visual sign of any doors and the sense of being in a covered outdoor living room is achieved.

Bold conceptual approach for adding a open kitchen to a semi-detached home - Dulwich Hill Residence (13)

An extension of the kitchen bench leads to a BBQ area with spotted gum decking and built in seating connecting the living space to the garden and playing area. The existing pressed tin ceiling was salvaged and restored in the new kitchen and dining spaces providing a sense of connection and unified palette between the existing period details and the contemporary additions.

Bold conceptual approach for adding a open kitchen to a semi-detached home - Dulwich Hill Residence (2)

The project embraces the idea that everyday tasks such as washing clothes need not be hidden away in a dark room and that the expression of these functions in a new typology can provide exciting opportunities for the creation of seamless indoor outdoor living space.

Location Dulwich Hill
Floor Area 286.38 m2
Photography Jackie Chan

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Bold conceptual approach for adding a open kitchen to a semi-detached home - Dulwich Hill Residence (4)

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Bold conceptual approach for adding a open kitchen to a semi-detached home - Dulwich Hill Residence (11)

Bold conceptual approach for adding a open kitchen to a semi-detached home - Dulwich Hill Residence (8)

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