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Project • By Studio Bark • Private Houses
Orchard House
Orchard House is a 171sqm three-bedroom family home located on a historically contentious Green Belt site in Warrington, characterised by its woodland setting and deep generational ties to the client’s family. The timber-framed new build home has successfully resolved a 65-year history of failed planning applications by delivering an exceptionally low-impact, high-performance design.
Jim Stephenson
Jim Stephenson
Designed by Studio Bark, with structural input from Structure Workshop and ecology guidance from SolumEnvironmental, the scheme was approved for its exceptional architectural and environmental merit. The homefollows a fabric-first approach, achieving a low operational energy use of 40.5KWh/m2, and an embodied carbo... More
Project • By Kay Moden • Private Houses
Extension 108
A modest Victorian terrace in Southwest London is restructured through a quiet but deliberate series of sectional and spatial moves — anchored by a timber-framed glass extension and a lowered reading nook carved into the undercroft. The project reorganises the home’s split-level plan into a sequence of connected, calm, and functional volumes, reflecting a family’s need for togetherness without sacrificing moments of retreat.
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The brief came from a family of five seeking a better balance between connection and separation — a layout that would support cooking, eating, working, and resting without relying on full open-plan living. The house’s existing configuration placed the kitchen at the lower rear... More
Project • By Porebski Architects • Housing
Leichhardt House
The Leichhardt House, designed by Porebski Architects, is a remarkable transformation of a small 1882 worker’s cottage located in Sydney’s inner-west. This project aimed to modernise the space while maintaining respect for the original structure and its historical context.
Tom Ferguson
The renovation is thoughtfully concealed behind the traditional frontage, maintaining the neighborhood’s aesthetic while surprising visitors with its spacious and light-filled interior
Tom Ferguson
The renovation involved converting the traditional L-shaped layout into a design that maximizes space and light. The house now features generous living areas, a seamless transition from the living areas to the rear garden, and new addi... More
Project • By Steffen Welsch Architects • Private Houses
Californian Bungalow
This sustainable family home is an energy efficient interpretation of a Californian Bungalow in inner-city Melbourne. It combines two unlikely architectural expressions – the casualness and generosity of a light-weight timber clad building with the compactness of an energy efficient
Tatjana Plitt
The brief was for a long-term home for a family with young children with the ability to accommodate guests over longer periods of time. We added low-cost operation, current and future functionality, evolving privacy needs and future accessibility to the brief.
Tatjana Plitt
We believe we planned ahead by considering zoning, layout, room sizes, relationships to outside and other details that will accommodate future complexities and... More
Project • By Dominic McKenzie Architects • Private Houses
Oak Cottage
Located next to Epping Forest, Oak Cottage was originally carefully designed and constructed in an Arts and Crafts style in 1901, but had been added to in a piecemeal fashion since then. These more recent additions included an entire new bay in 2006 which had added a further half to the overall floor area. By the time the house was purchased by our clients, any trace of its original quality had been largely lost.
Richard Chivers
Richard Chivers
For our clients and for Dominic McKenzie Architects (DMA) the question was how to change this (spacious and well-located) ugly duckling into a beautiful swan?
Richard Chivers
Richard Chivers
Richard Chivers
Key to the project was the fact that the potentially spacious groun... More