East Fremantle House, Perth Building Project, Western Australia Modern Real Estate, Architecture Photos
East Fremantle House in Perth
12 Feb 2021
East Fremantle House
Architect: NIC BRUNSDON
Location: Perth, Western Australia

The East Fremantle House is a contextually responsive addition to a heritage cottage in suburban Perth.

The most important part of this house is the space that is not built – specifically, a large northern void – a space for sun, light, sky, sound, and breeze to inhabit. The house then traces this edge, creating rooms with immediate connection to these elemental conditions.

On the northern face of the addition, the form is simple and linear, allowing the southern mass of the building to be an efficient living space conceptualised as one long ?garden room?. The northern face of these spaces is lined with sliding doors, allowing the whole space to open up and allow the life of the house to spill out and occupy the full width of the site.
On the southern face, the ancillary program elements are expressed as ?lumps?; a tall triangular chimney for the fireplace, a curved north facing shell for an art wall, a low top-lit box for the kitchen, and a high round cylinder for a powder room.

Formally, the house is expressed in four parts; the existing brick cottage, an entry link, the ground floor addition, and the first floor addition. The entry link acts as a mediating point, the connective tissue between the elements. Dark, hard and solemn. To ...