the site’s context is defined and demarcated by a continuous row of workers houses from the early 1900s.  they line each side of the street and create a small neighbourhood of modest lots and long narrow duplex homes.  the existing house and an old grapevine of the same vintage were retained but all the latter additions demolished.  the new buildings were configured around the idea that the kitchen would become the focal element that ordered the planning, organising everything else around it.  fundamentally the proposition was a kind of upgrade of the existing condition, with a new kitchen and dining room, a bathroom and laundry, and a detached studio at the far end of the lot, separated by a court and replicating the old shed off the rear ROW.

awards

2011 | AIA Iwan Iwanoff Award for Small Project Architecture
2011 | AIA Marshall Clifton Award for Residential Architecture -  Houses (Alterations and Additions)  

photographs: rob frith