Our clients purchased this villa on a large west facing section as a gutted shell. The owners wished to create a family home incorporating the character villa with contemporary additions that complimented the original building.
Our plan places the bedrooms and utility spaces in the original villa, reinstating the detail and approximate layout of the original home. The central hall forms an axial link from the entry to the new living spaces and gardens to the rear.
The rear addition is treated as a low pitched lean-to form set below the original villa roof forms. However, a half level transition down in floor level results in a generous volume to the addition, complimentary to the scale of the rooms within the villa. The low roof lines keep the rear addition hidden from the streetscape, and give a linear contemporary form to the home from the garden perspective.
The villa hall has been extended to form a sarked atrium creating a visual axis into the garden. The atrium provides northern light into the kitchen, and creates a sense of three spaces within the large living area. The main living room has a high ceiling and grand double hung windows either side of a large fireplace. The kitchen and dining room has a lower ceiling flowing into an adjacent library sitting room, with a more intimate feel.
Deep verandahs and sliding doors and shutters connect the living spaces to the garden, providing generous exterior living areas and shade from harsh western sun. Painted timber cladding, timber joinery and detailing relates the addition to the original home, while also having a modern and distinct character delineating new from old. The additions reinterpret the vernacular lean-to at the rear of the villa into a beautiful architectural space in harmony with the original home.
Material Used :
Doors: Timber Joinery – paint finish
Windows: Timber Joinery – paint finish
Interior lighting: By Inlite
Exterior furniture: Dala by Dedon
Facade cladding:
1. Bevelback weatherboards - paint finish to match existing
2. vertical shiplap – paint finish
Flooring:
1. Oil stained oak
2. Original Kauri
Roofing:
1. Steel corrugate, Coloursteel
2. Opening roof system, Louvretec
