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Paddington Two Rooms
Andrew Manson

Paddington Two Rooms

This is a small scale extension to the rear of a brick bungalow on a 400sq.m. site in suburban Brisbane.The existing house is unusual amongst its neighbours in this inner city suburb, being a brick and tile bungalow.The existing house is an introverted series of cellular spaces with small windows and doors. The rear garden is a green focus outside the house. 


The design adds a modest single living space , paired with a similar sized terrace beside. 

A low pitched roof rises towards the rear , a directional emphasis towards the garden, greenery behind and sky above.The structure is a grid of steel posts and beams, enabling maximum areas of glass, as a counterpoint to the introverted spaces of the existing house. 


A suspended lower roof awning over the terrace serves multiple purposes. It creates two view vistas, a lower part directly framing the view to the rear garden, and a second higher one to more distant trees and sky beyond. The lower roof also defines the extent of the terrace without creating a barrier to the garden, and scales down the volume to a smaller domestic human scale.

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