250 Buitengracht House’s Site:
Designed by Team Architects, This is the story of Fred, Ben, D&S Planning Studio, an average Victorian and a long, sloping site with development potential located on the corner of Upper Buitengragt and Carisbrook streets. The 653 sqm plot offered the owners a unique opportunity to combine their brief requirements of living, working & rental income within the confines of a singular site.
The property has undergone an extended grid overlay, a virtual carving up, and a primary division running centrally north to south, along the length of the plot, but further split into eight distinct zones: Victorian house, two-story shed addition, vehicular court, and studio unit allocations repeated to both halves. Photography by © Adam Letch
The two existing mature feature trees flanking the vehicle court have been retained as the green connector canopies of the three distinct building blocks forming the Carisbrook St façade. The stone and steel palisade walls enclosing the Buitengragt and Carisbrook boundaries are of heritage value and have been retained as necessary elements to preserve the authenticity link to the street and permit openness and life to these edges.
The existing Victorian is an ungraded building with many of the original features ignored and altered by the previous unsympathetic owner. The enclosed portion of the existing stope has been removed and restored to a colonnaded verandah with a view to re-instating the original...