Hastings van Nunen House, Sydney Real Estate Building, NSW Interior, Photos, Australian Architecture
Hastings van Nunen House in Sydney
14 Feb 2021
Hastings van Nunen House
Design: Ian Moore Architects
Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Set within the heritage conservation area of Surry Hills, Sydney, the Hastings van Nunen House project is the extension and reworking of a former Butcher?s Shop.

Originally an annexe to the adjoining terrace house, where the butcher would have lived, the building was a shop at street level with two children?s bedrooms above, with a freestanding cool room in the rear yard. The original door openings linking the two buildings are still evident on both levels but were bricked in when previously converted to a separate residence. At the same time, the original shop front was removed and the floor level of the front room raised to insert a timber floor. A rudimentary kitchen and stair had also been inserted in the space between the rear of the shop and the original cool room, which was converted to a bathroom with an additional bedroom added above.
The brief was to create a new kitchen and rooftop extension to house the main bedroom with ensuite bathroom while maintaining the original butcher?s shop as the main living space. Conceptually the new work is a ?Z? shaped element, consisting of the horizontal kitchen leg at the lower level, running towards the rear yard, a vertical stairwell and another horizontal leg on the upper level...