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An existing 1980’s attached dwelling has been completely renovated internally. The client’s brief was to maximise the space, ‘remove the 80’s’ and deliver a sharp, refined living environment.

Our focus revolved around integrated joinery items, and select removal of walls to open up the space. By walking through joinery into other rooms where doors once were a sense of mystery is also created.

The result is a refined, integrated living space that employs natural materials to create the aesthetic. Some rooms even take advantage of the natural surrounds of the building with select glass viewing panels looking onto the now artificially lit sandstone rockface at the rear of the site.

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The developers brief was to design a sensitive yet iconic building flexible enough to serve both a strata unit residential and serviced apartment development.

The approach was to address all frontages with articulated forms that responded in the main part to the adjacent park area. The frontage addresses the entrance to the development and reinforces the edge to both the school and the park beyond.

The result is a lightweight building with an articulated tectonic. The building is sensitive to the immediate competing scales of its context and the environment. A material palette that reinforces the deliberate articulation also enhances the buildings form.