A tiny pre-1911 cottage on a tiny 253m2 site, the design works hard to find generosity. The project is limited by size. The house challenges the commonly prescribed room requirements of today's homes and works with strategies of expanding constrained space to ensure an outcome that does not feel small. Planning consolidates room types and circulation is programmed to ensure that all space is useful. A split-level diagram shares volumes and walls manipulate sight lines to edit out neighbors and instead invite long vistas to the adjacent borrowed landscape.
Early, it was established that to enable generosity on a constrained site, the special room was to remain open to adaptation, void of fixed walls and cabinetry that dictate the permanence of the occupants' routine. A diagram of efficiency is borrowed from commercial tower-making where lift, stair and amenities core allow floorplates to be free and ever-changing.
这个开放空间有一片空地,公用设施核心筒提供必要的服务,楼梯环绕核心筒布置,一层设有洗衣房,中层设有冰箱、储藏室和空调供应室,最上面一层放置着珍贵的 DJ 台 - 这些设施垂直叠放,为原本死气沉沉的住宅增添了活力。移除障碍物后,这里就空出来了,只需摆放一些少量的家具,就能创造出一个灵活多变的空间,可以用于烹饪、用餐、休息、娱乐或玩耍,其中一半的空间还可用于室外活动。
The special room is an empty square serviced by a utility core, circumnavigated by a split-level stair and whose amenity and program is accessed at all levels. This core houses the laundry at the ground, the fridge, pantry and air conditioning supply at the mid-level, and the prized DJ booth at level one – stacked vertically above one another to give the program to otherwise dead circulation space. By removing the obstructions, the special room is then free, occupied only by loose furnishings to create a flexible, changeable space to cook, eat, relax, entertain or play, with half this room then given to outdoor space.
Though the site is not flood-affected, it sits immediately adjacent an overland flow path. The existing house was dilapidated by high moisture and water damage, and this, paired with the client's brief for an enduring, low-maintenance home, drove the extension to be constructed from durable brick and block, raised clear of the overland flow path.
The special room is robust. With doors open, the internal and external public spaces appear and operate as a single generous volume, sharing the same brick materiality. On a tight suburban site, the courtyard walls edit out the closeness of its neighbors and break only to invite long-borrowed views to an adjoining green belt. Glimpses of the hillside character are invited and captured – of pitched roofs, ornate chimneys and obsolete antennas. In a character suburb, the extension made of landscape walls is kept low, sleeving in below the line of the existing roof form.
The private dormitory spaces celebrate the cottage's character, room proportions maintained – posts and ornate trims conserved. Alongside rigorous consultation with the town planner, the project seeks to challenge regulations for inner city setbacks sensitively. The project seeks to endure fashion in its honesty of building material and ability to adapt to a multitude of functions and ways of living.
建筑师:Lineburg Wang
类型:住宅
面积:130 m²
年份:2023年
摄影:David Chatfield
制造商:Artedomus, AstraWalker Tapware, Austral Bricks, Bowral, FLOS, Franca Design, Jardan, Mast Furniture, NAU
首席建筑师:Lineburg Wang
承包商:Struss Constructions
结构工程:Ingineered
城市规划:Property Projects Australia
项目建筑师:Michael Lineburg
建筑设计:Lynn Wang
城市:布里斯班
国家:澳大利亚
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Brisbane, Australia
Architects: Lineburg Wang
Area: 130 m²
Year: 2023
Photographs:David Chatfield
Manufacturers: Artedomus, AstraWalker Tapware, Austral Bricks, Bowral, FLOS, Franca Design, Jardan, Mast Furniture, NAU
Lead Architect: Lineburg Wang
Contractors: Struss Constructions
Structural Engineers: Ingineered
Town Planning: Property Projects Australia
Project Architect: Michael Lineburg
Architect: Lynn Wang
City: Brisbane
Country: Australia