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Redfern House interior compositions
New visuals of the ground and upper floor interior spaces for Redfern House highlight the varying spatial qualities within the new addition and original front half of the house for an artist couple and their young family. Aside from meeting numerous client and council planning objectives, the new works amply resolve many requisite concerns around cross ventilation, daylight access, and material & energy sustainability.
The front lower and upper bedrooms are renewed with improved amenity and storage while the front secondary rooms are transformed to accommodate generous kitchen, dining and bathroom spaces. New staircases vastly improve circulation, and a new attic level is sensitively inserted within the original form to provide dedicated office space that is flexibly adapted as guest accommodation.
At the rear addition, a new ground floor living area opens onto a generous landscaped rear garden, while a new main bedroom and ensuite bathroom are accommodated on the upper floor. The spaces embody durable, low maintenance materials predominantly comprising of low carbon burnished concrete, FSC-certified blackbutt timber joinery, wall & floor elements, and long life-cycle terrazzo overlays – while also employing a loose triadic colour strategy throughout.
Best of Houzz 2025: Design
The new year is off to a good start with Christopher Polly Architect being awarded a winner in the 2025 Best of Houzz awards in Design for the practice’s sustained reputation for high quality architectural design.
It’s very gratifying that the work of the practice continues to be recognised on the back of having been previously awarded in 2022, 2021, 2020 and 2015.
Trafalgar House visualisations
New renders of Trafalgar House have been uploaded showcasing the new two-storey addition to a freestanding terrace house in its heritage conservation area.
Aside from amply meeting client and council objectives, the project is driven by overarching conservation and sustainability values. The original front form retains local cultural heritage in the public domain and responsibly preserves its embodied energy. The new rear addition augments the low environmental footprint of the project, achieves a thermal comfort level of 7-stars, embeds low carbon materials, and integrates on-site renewable energy production and storage.
The new ground floor interior is carefully composed within its singular volume, with new arched openings through an existing internal wall echoing the original front façade openings and allowing the existing front half to amply connect to the new rear spaces – while a carved-out void enables daylight access from the first floor above.