RaeRae is an inner city family home which incorporates two pre-exisiting terrace houses. A glazed entry, set back between the heritage buildings, unites the two and forms the gate- way to the new architecture, surprising in light and scale.
Unconventional but thoroughly logical; like a German sports car, the beauty of RaeRae’s exterior belies the highly tuned rationalism that generated it. Initially it looks to be fanciful, an architectural mountain range, but at its core the house is responsive, logical and strate- gic. The roof form is contextual, every rise and fall is tuned to minimise overshadowing and visual bulk, only truly apparent if it were studied from above. The roof is low against abut- ting gardens and high where the neighbours have built against the boundary. In creating height in all the areas, both internally and externally, the mountainous profile of RaeRae emerged.