Passive Extension and Renovation: Magnolia Soul Family House
This passively designed extension and renovation creates a warm, robust, family and pet friendly space, while protecting a mature Magnolia x soulangeana tree and maximising garden area.
This passively designed extension and renovation creates a warm, robust, family and pet friendly space, while protecting a mature Magnolia x soulangeana tree and maximising garden area.
To design a timeless contemporary home that captures all the potential mountain and bay views in its surroundings from the living areas and bedrooms.
With a focus on space, natural light and fluidity, Caroline residence has a sculptural quality which radiates from the central spiral staircase throughout the 3 bedroom home. For such a small site, the house feels generous in proportion …
The client required a low maintenance house that would feel comfortable in scale for the couple and ‘open up’ for visiting guests whilst still allowing privacy and separate spaces.
A home’s liveability begins and ends with its orientation. For this heritage home in the inner western suburb of Lewisham, south-facing living quarters meant the family spent most of their time in cold, dimly lit rooms. Not much fun.
Brick & Gable House is designed for a family of four. We were initially engaged to build a larger house for them, but after spending time living overseas, they returned realising that they could live in a smaller footprint.
The brief was to create a light, bright, and comfortable open plan home which was family friendly and great for entertaining whilst making the most of their 490sqm site.
As a nod to the prolific housing typology of the area, through its use of materials, T2 Residence reinterprets the workers cottage into a contemporary timber clad house that adopts the idyllic image of the ‘house’, carrying it through to the details exampled in the profile of its front fence.