Situated in one of Brisbane’s oldest inner-city suburbs the Annie Street Residence consist of a progressive extension to an existing 1920’s traditional high-set timber worker’s cottage. The underlying conceptual driver was to create two contrasting volumes joined via a semi-transparent circulation void whilst maintaining the street character and qualities of the existing house.
Conceived as a bold dark double-storey rectilinear volume with transversing gable roofs the proposed extension consists of a new open plan ground floor kitchen, dining and outdoor living areas that provide an enhanced connection to the north-facing backyard and pool through large retracting doors. The upper floor contains a series of generous bedrooms organized around the double-height living space below which have elevated prospect to existing mature trees, the close-by hills and access to light and natural cross ventilation whilst addressing privacy and overlooking constraints from the adjacent neighbours.
The dialogue between the two contrasting volumes explores a series of split-level spaces that offer up differing types of occupation and spatial experiences for the user. Visually, it is eccentric and in a lot of ways a lively departure from the quintessential worker’s cottage.
Team:
NGS Structural Engineers, Wendourie Constructions, Viva Property Group (Town Planner)
Material Used :
1. Facade cladding:
Polycarbonate Cladding, Danpalon & Lexan
James Hardie Axon 133 smooth cladding, James Hardie;
James Hardie 1200mm wide x 6mm thick Hardie Flex FC sheeting with 42x19mm FJ pine cover battens over joints, James Hardie
2. Flooring: Blackbutt Hardwood Flooring, QLD Timber Flooring
3. Skylights: Electric skylight, Velux
4. Doors: Custom timber doors
5. Windows: AWS Aluminium winows
6. Awning: Heka Hood HH600 & HH900, Hekahoods
7. Interior furniture: Supplied by client
