The starting point was a dignified Victorian home which had been left fragmented and incomplete by a series of renovations. The task was two fold, firstly to consolidate and reinstate the existing heritage parts and secondly to create a new architectural language that would transform the rear and become the soul of the new indoor and outdoor living areas.
Internally a generous kitchen larder disappears behind sliding timber wall and the remaining kitchen merges together with the dining and living areas to create a gesture of communal living. A truss across the rear balcony becomes a decorative structural element, repeating in a grape vine covered pergola that cantilevers over a deep swimming pool and BBQ area to provide dappled light to the table and the waters edge below.