Ashley Halliday Architects were tasked to create a comfortable and contemporary new single-level family home that nurtures and connects.
The key challenge the design team needed to address was how to nestle a contemporary new home into a conservative heritage street.
The design team’s strategy was to reference the surrounding stone villas by introducing a sympathetically scaled, and proportioned gabled pavilion facing the street.
Stripped back to its core elements, the gable respectfully addresses the surrounding context in form, roof profiles, datum heights, and setbacks.
The street-facing pavilion has large operable windows and screens encouraging interaction with the garden and streetscape beyond, reflecting the client’s desire to interact with their neighbourhood.
This is reinforced with a front fence that uses slim steel frames to provide a subtle distinction between the public and private realms, whilst encouraging that sense of community.
Both the house and garden were orchestrated to reflect the owner’s generosity of spirit, modern taste, dynamic family lifestyle, and desire to engage with their suburban community.
The design team introduced a simple, contemporary palette of complementary materials and finishes.
The two gabled pavilions sit perpendicular to one another, pulled apart and inflected to create interstitial spaces between that provide veiled views in and out whilst creating pockets for the surrounding landscape to infiltrate and break down the mass of the house.
The main living pavilion embraces the gabled roof form with a portal steel frame allowing the roof form to continue internally.
Tasmanian oak ceiling linings add warmth and scale whilst the textured oak battens give a rhythm to the spaces, enhancing the sense of perspective that is directed to the garden to the south.
Project Details
Project Size – 230 m2
Site Area – 800 m2
Completion Date – 2021
Building Levels – 1
Project Team
Architecture and Interior Design
Ashley Halliday Architects
Ashley Halliday is an acclaimed contemporary architecture and interior design practice rapidly drawing attention for its high profile and award-winning work.
Photography
Anthony Basheer
Anthony is a photographer whose work explores the quieter, experimental moments found in buildings.
He is drawn to architecture that stirs emotion through scale, colour, and texture, and captures the magic and rhythm of the changing seasons.
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