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Trafalgar House interior compositions
The ground floor spaces within the new rear addition are arranged within a 4m tall ‘grand room’, connecting to a new landscaped courtyard and sky views beyond - with a powder room, reading alcove, and a laundry room doubling as a second side entry carefully organised to one side along its length. Of importance to the client brief, new arched openings through an existing internal wall enable the original front half to markedly link to the new ground floor rear spaces while echoing the arched openings of the front façade.
With the first floor, a series of crafted and controlled spaces offer varying spatial experiences in counterpoint to their otherwise modest dimensions. A pop-up rear roof plane over the bedroom echoes the original roof pitch and enables northern light access and sky views, an office and main bathroom each borrow from an adjacent void to expand outlooks, and an ensuite projects outward from the footprint to connect to the street and canopy views - with a linear array of roof lights over a compact hall responding to a challenged northern orientation along the side boundary.
Christopher Polly Architect in Architizer’s 30 Best Architecture Firms in Australia
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Greenwich House image by Matthew Fonda / Method Visualisation
Leura House exterior compositions
Further graphical 3d modelling representations of Leura House bring to life the exterior compositions of its connected pavilions and the multiple external terrace areas that are arranged between and around them – serving at once to accentuate its outward materials expression.
Seamlessly integrating with its interior materials palette, it amalgamates low carbon smooth and bush-hammered concrete, face brickwork in variously articulated stretcher and stacked-bond arrangements, expressed galvanised steel elements, and naturally finished timber linings, doors & windows – while referencing the variety of natural grey, brown, and silver tones of its immediate landscape to allow a contiguous relationship with its surrounding setting.