The concept for this late Victorian Family home included retrieving and increasing open space by removing poor add-ons at the rear, then adding ground floor living areas and first floor bedrooms appropriate for contemporary lifestyle.

The site is within the North Randwick Heritage Conservation Area, which is significant for its “persistent, strongly Federation streetscapes”.

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The key values and characteristics of the area needed to be respected in the final design concept.

The Clients are practical open minded professionals with active teenage children who desired a Family home with generous open space and outdoor lifestyle connections to the existing pool and rear yard.

Frontage had a dominant character which needed to be retained & respected at all cost to ensure and maintain its contribution to the conservation area.

The presence of the home prior to renovations reflected a previous attempt to bring the house into the eighties by sparrow picking the face of the brickwork and building a replica federation garage.

The objective was to readapt the home whilst maintaining and possibly enhancing the prevailing character.

Castle street side of the house had an extension reaching back almost to the rear boundary taking up valuable outdoor open space which needed to be retrieved.

As well the very wide site provided opportunities to set back the house from its neighbours for more light.

To respect the original form of the house there needed to be a conscious desire to avoid replicating box like rear extensions.

After:

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Check out the entire project & design drawings here!