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DULWICH HILL 2
ALTERATIONS & ADDITIONS
for Private Client
2005
ALTERATIONS & ADDITIONS
for Private Client
2005
This project required care and an intelligent solution to the owner’s requirements. The existing three bedroom residence, with it’s dining room and service areas located in the rear in a dilapidate lean-to, required significant work. The solution involved building a generous new living room wing at the rear, which slips over and wraps the stepped rear of the original building.
A continuous wall of joinery, expressed as a thickened wall, was designed to accommodate the laundry, kitchen and media alcove, however, this was not realised upon construction. The new living room has been given a more generous volume and scale, by stepping down from the floor level of the original house. Lowering the floor to the living room further enhances its connection with the rear garden, on the sloping block.
A new bathroom and cupboards at the centre of the plan interlock the old part of the house with the new, converting the existing living room located beneath the hipped roof into a bedroom. Designed with an expression independent of the original house, the new wing has a skillion roof that aligns with the existing eaves line providing a continuous highlight window to all new rooms.
