CARLTON NORTH TERRACE
A two storey extension to an inner city victorian terrace on a spatially constrained site with poor orientation. The extension incorporates European standard passive-house principles and technologies including air tightness, thermally broken timber double glazed windows, high levels of insulation, minimal thermal bridging and heat recovery ventilation.
Remaining of the old part of the terrace house are two bedrooms and a hallway at the end of which is a new tight sealed 'middle door' that opens into the hermetically sealed new addition.
Downstairs is a new bathroom and open plan kitchen, dining, living that opens onto a rear courtyard.
The stair between levels is comprised of three parts - a section of folded steel dangling above the edge of the kitchen benchtop, abutted by a movable stepped storage unit on wheels.
The upstairs is the private domain of the owner - bedroom, ensuite, and a glazed wintergarden positioned between the old and new parts of the house to catch north sun for growing plants and vegetables - and washing and drying clothes.
Landscape design by James Dawson Design
Photographs by Graeme Boyle
CARLTON NORTH TERRACE
A two storey extension to an inner city victorian terrace on a spatially constrained site with poor orientation. The extension incorporates European standard passive-house principles and technologies including air tightness, thermally broken timber double glazed windows, high levels of insulation, minimal thermal bridging and heat recovery ventilation.
Remaining of the old part of the terrace house are two bedrooms and a hallway at the end of which is a new tight sealed 'middle door' that opens into the hermetically sealed new addition.
Downstairs is a new bathroom and open plan kitchen, dining, living that opens onto a rear courtyard.
The stair between levels is comprised of three parts - a section of folded steel dangling above the edge of the kitchen benchtop, abutted by a movable stepped storage unit on wheels.
The upstairs is the private domain of the owner - bedroom, ensuite, and a glazed wintergarden positioned between the old and new parts of the house to catch north sun for growing plants and vegetables - and washing and drying clothes.
Landscape design by James Dawson Design
Photographs by Graeme Boyle
CARLTON NORTH TERRACE
A two storey extension to an inner city victorian terrace on a spatially constrained site with poor orientation. The extension incorporates European standard passive-house principles and technologies including air tightness, thermally broken timber double glazed windows, high levels of insulation, minimal thermal bridging and heat recovery ventilation.
Remaining of the old part of the terrace house are two bedrooms and a hallway at the end of which is a new tight sealed 'middle door' that opens into the hermetically sealed new addition.
Downstairs is a new bathroom and open plan kitchen, dining, living that opens onto a rear courtyard.
The stair between levels is comprised of three parts - a section of folded steel dangling above the edge of the kitchen benchtop, abutted by a movable stepped storage unit on wheels.
The upstairs is the private domain of the owner - bedroom, ensuite, and a glazed wintergarden positioned between the old and new parts of the house to catch north sun for growing plants and vegetables - and washing and drying clothes.
Landscape design by James Dawson Design
Photographs by Graeme Boyle
SWANSEA ACCESSIBLE LOO
A new fully accessible toilet on the main street of Swansea from which a stunning view across Oyster Bay towards the Freycinet Peninsula is afforded (from the sitting position via one way glass). The structure is carefully positioned under a copse of mature eucalypts at the end of an existing lookout deck and directly opposite a pedestrian crossing from the local museum and tourist information centre. The back of the toilet uses the proximity of an existing drystone wall to make a wind protected gathering space for small groups of people - waiting to use the loo, sheltering from the strong nor-easter, or perhaps just hanging out.
Photographs by Anna Gilby + Ross Brewin
SWANSEA ACCESSIBLE LOO
A new fully accessible toilet on the main street of Swansea from which a stunning view across Oyster Bay towards the Freycinet Peninsula is afforded (from the sitting position via one way glass). The structure is carefully positioned under a copse of mature eucalypts at the end of an existing lookout deck and directly opposite a pedestrian crossing from the local museum and tourist information centre. The back of the toilet uses the proximity of an existing drystone wall to make a wind protected gathering space for small groups of people - waiting to use the loo, sheltering from the strong nor-easter, or perhaps just hanging out.
Photographs by Anna Gilby + Ross Brewin
MORE SOON
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SPRING BAY MILL_
RIDGE QUARTERS GROUP ACCOMMODATION
The Ridge Quarters is a group accommodation building that is part of stage 2 of the ongoing 40 ha site-wide regeneration of what was the world’s largest wood chipping facility into a culture and environment focused events venue called Spring Bay Mill. The accommodation allows groups of up to 28 people to stay on site to attend events or retreats. Avoiding the generic nature of hotels and the indulgence of luxury accommodation, the building instead aims to frame a unique experience of this regenerating post-industrial site and the surrounding landscape whilst encouraging social interaction between guests.
The building is located over a former dumping ground on top of a hill once covered in a giant stockpile of woodchips, enabling the remediation of this particularly damaged part of the site, with woodchips and contaminated soil removed and composted, making way for building footings and an extensive native garden designed by the site horticulturalist. The project name references the site location along with the building typology – that of a simple workers’ or shearers’ quarters where bedrooms are traditionally arranged along a shared walkway or veranda, with common areas for cooking, eating and socialising. The accommodation is intended to simply be a comfortable place to gather and rest at both ends of a day spent being active elsewhere on site or the surrounding region.
The building is arranged into a linear form facing the ocean to the east and the bay to the west, an orientation that also makes the most of the morning and evening sun (the times of the day that group accommodation is typically occupied). The form gently arcs to a radius drawn from the centre of the nearby Amphitheatre situated at the conceptual centre of the site.
The bedrooms are compact, encouraging guests to spend time mingling and interacting with others in common areas. Circulation between the parts of the accommodation is in the open air, repeatedly returning the users to the natural environment - to see the landscape, to feel the wind, to hear the birds.
The infrastructural scale and materiality of the building references the former industrial buildings on the site to create a sense that it might have always been there. The necessarily robust expression and detailing of the exterior contrasts with the tactility and warmth of the highly crafted interiors that are lined with natural materials and finishes to create a cabin-like sense of shelter and comfort.
In response to the labour, material and economic challenges of building in a regional location, the project is partially prefabricated. In line with this, the building was engineered and constructed in an elemental manner that suits the industrial vernacular from which the building takes in cues and ensures it could all be simply unbolted and disassembled for relocating or upcycling in the future.
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2022 Australian Institute of Architects National Architecture Awards:
> AWARD for SUSTAINABLE ARCHITECTURE
2022 Australian Institute of Architects Tasmanian Chapter Architecture Awards:
> AWARD FOR SUSTAINABLE ARCHITECTURE
> AWARD FOR COMMERCIAL ARCHITECTURE
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Builder_ Dillon Builders + AJR Construct
Landscape Design_ Marcus Ragus
Wayfinding Signage_ Futago
