The residence is located on a long, thin, gently sloping corner block with park views in the inner city suburb of Mount Hawthorn, Perth. It maintains the traditional street pattern by careful articulation into equal proportioned masses separated by the cantilevering Zincalume box.
This continues the suburban Jekyll and Hyde explorations of IPH creating a negative/ positive relationship with the existing residence. The taught, hinged white rendered wall forms a protected north facing garden whilst tempering climate and focusing relationships to the street and park.
The oblique planning achieves complexity and subtle spatial transition between old and new spaces. The addition uses the sloping nature of the site to step and delineate the interconnected spaces whilst the structure allows for an openness that mediates between the individual roomed nature of the house and a more contemporary open plan living.

Whilst being undeniably modern, this project legitimises an old house being kept by creating a clear relationship and dialogue with it. It engages with both the character of its surroundings and the character of its occupants.

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