In this luxury sustainable home, the requirements of modern living have been provided while ensuring that neither the amenity of neighbours, nor the heritage quality of the street is compromised. The once dark and haphazard house now benefits from good natural lighting, good connection to outside spaces, intelligent connection between spaces and excellent use of the compact site through placement of the built form and design detail.

In essence, the courtyard house extension is made up of three elegant architectural elements. A timber link element contains the kitchen and connects to the masonry living room ‘pod’. Above this sits the sculptural second floor bedroom ‘pod’. The overhang of the second storey ‘pod’ functions as sun-shading to the northern ground floor windows and creates an undercroft to the south-west terrace.