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Garden Wall House in Carlton North
Modern Residential Project in Victoria, Australia – design by Sarah Kahn Architect
14 Nov 2017
Garden Wall House
Design: Sarah Kahn Architect
Location: Carlton North, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Garden Wall House

The project involved the insertion of a new 3-bedroom residence as a second dwelling on the lot, adjacent to an existing garage on large block in Carlton North.

The block itself was a complex site with the existing garage and studio building to one edge surrounded by lane ways, a large double-storey heritage terrace house facing the principal street front to the eastern side and the remaining land an overgrown, rambling garden that was too large to be properly maintained by the owner and lacked connection to the main house. The owner wanted a simple, flexible and sunlit home, in which she could remain living alone happily and safely well into old-age, to be inserted into the unused garden space.
The new home had to sit alongside the existing studio/garage building, allow for direct entry to the second dwelling from the lane way plus maintain access into the garage and to the studio above whilst retaining sunlight in the existing studio room, where the owner worked. A keen gardener, she also wanted to maximize connection to the outdoors and retain some of the established planting, but crea...