we always try to do interesting things when we marry um heritage work with with new work i think with this one we've dovetailed the two together there's a little bit of blurring the boundary between what is old and new we're in the inner city of melbourne in richmond just on the edge of the city the house hadn't had anything done to it for a long time the back of the property was um quite ramshackled and and sheds and old structures and lean twos but beautiful location in the front of the house we wanted to to celebrate and utilise we try to be faithful and authentic with respect to the old works certainly with this house you come into the original old entry but then you pass through a brick wall that we created within the interior that defines the threshold between the old and new there is an entry hall or a rival space then you very much come into quite a modern open plan kitchen living dining space initially we had a certain strategy for the design which had the new works further forward on the property through the process we were encouraged to push the new works even further back in the property we were encouraged to retain the existing house more fully and the roof and the chimneys in particular the exercise of designing in this context everything is relatively tight and you always have to be mindful of and attentive to maintaining the amenity of your neighbours so overlooking and overshadowing is always key consideration and certainly the balance between old and new and doing that in an authentic and respectful way so there's a there's an inherent contrast between the old and the new we've got red brick for the old dwelling and all the details that go with that and then there's a contemporary addition which is quite paired back very simple it's a very limited palette on the extra it's a rendered finish and there's some steel detailing but then when you come inside we've essentially got a bagged brick a concrete floor a timber ceiling and then through the joinery there's some veneer there's a beautiful stone and then stainless steel on benchtops the main kitchen living dining area of the house does sit underneath the old existing roof it's not as absolutely clear-cut that we sometimes have with the old house and then we sometimes put a break and then do new work the dynamic between the inside and outside of projects for us is always critical there is only one sort of key outdoor entertaining space so that feeds directly off the main kitchen living dining we want to be able to flow seamlessly between inside and outside through the glazing and external door design that we've incorporated there was a restraint shown through the entire design and then there's small details that are put in to give the overall design point of difference simple things like the way the joinery is pulled off walls to make each piece feel elemental and almost like each piece of joinery is an item of furniture and then things like the stone detailing running the grain on an angle was just to take a slightly different approach an unexpected approach there's a circular detail that is recurring through joinery handles and there's not a lot of decoration and adornment there's various light effects that come through not just sunlight directly coming into a space or diffuse like coming through a skylight there's also unexpected things that happen through a design process the way light penetrates a space sometimes it's not as you imagine you get these delightful surprises when the client commissioned a sculpture for this project it's had this beautiful
START_SPONSOR_TOKEN we always try to do interesting things when we marry um heritage work with with new work i think with this one we've dovetailed the two together there's a little bit of blurring the boundary between what is old and new we're in the inner city of melbourne in richmond just on END_SPONSOR_TOKEN