This project was an extension to an existing weatherboard house in Melbourne’s northern suburbs. Whilst the site was a considerable size, the client was after a modest solution that retained the large backyard and provided a warm private sanctuary to relax
Embedded into the landscape, Ha Ha Haus is located in a leafy pocket of Alphington (Wurundjeri Country) where front fences are a refreshingly rare sighting.
The Chambers House is the restoration of a raw, crafted, modernist building which presented a number of practical and deterioration challenges to overcome.
We were the original architects for this house. It was one of our early projects. Our clients didn’t want to spend money and the building was never finished how we envisaged.
Gawthorne’s Hut is a luxury, 2 person, off grid, tourism experience within a working rural property 10 minutes from the centre of Mudgee. Gawthorne’s Hut demonstrates sustainable building practices and smaller footprints to guests.
To disappear to a remote house off grid requires both technology and tenacity. First there’s energy use and battery storage to consider, adequate rainwater collection and, of course, bushfire planning and design. For practice director, Simon Anderson, eight acres of native bushland in the Blue Mountains proved an irresistible temptation for research and development.
The Ferry Road House is representative of how infill development within a heritage conservation area can be comfortable, practical and environmentally sensitive without compromise.
The Ballarat East House is wrapped in a locally sourced vertically clad native Australian hardwood board and batten cladding. This emulates it’s vertically native treed environment whilst light and shadow change on the three dimensional cladding throughout the days progress.
