Bellevue Terrace House, Fremantle Property, Building Extension, Architecture Images
Bellevue Terrace House in Fremantle
Home Renovations and Expansions, Australia ? design by Philip Stejskal Architecture
19 Jan 2017
Bellevue Terrace House
Location: Fremantle, Western Australia
Design: Philip Stejskal Architecture
Bellevue Terrace House

Our project consists of alterations and additions to an existing 1890?s duplex cottage on Bellevue Terrace in Fremantle.

The briefed starting point for our intervention was to improve the relationship between internal and external spaces that previously suffered on account of a 1.5m level variance and the inconvenient location of an existing bathroom.

Programmatic aspects of the brief comprised an outdoor dining room, a new bathroom and improved privacy to the southern neighbour. The existing kitchen was to remain.
The property runs E-W, with laneway access along the northern boundary.
Our design grew, almost by itself, from a meeting of site constraints, client brief and our interest in exploring an alternative to the full-width bi-fold door. An alternative rooted in traditional notions of the bay window and more recently in the work of Owen and Vokes and Peters ? that immediacy of the outdoors is not necessarily maximised by removing all barriers and thresholds, but perhaps heightened by emphasising and allowing the occupant to linger on/occupy that threshold.

Our project therefore seeks to offer our clients varied opportuni...