House of Green Gables, Sydney Residential Building, Home Reconfiguration, Australian Architecture Images
House of Green Gables in Sydney
Australian Victorian Terracehouse Reconfiguration ? design by Anton Kouzmin Architecture
8 Oct 2017
House of Green Gables
Design: Anton Kouzmin Architecture
Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
House of Green Gables

This contemporary reconfiguration of a Victorian terrace overlooks a new roof garden. The garden follows the traditional gabled roof form and serves as an external link to the tree canopy of the adjacent pocket park. First floor rooms are reconfigured as contiguous space allowing daylight to permeate into the terrace.

The project is conceived as a series of vertical and horizontal thresholds overlaid onto the existing compartmentalised rooms of the first and new attic floors of the terrace house. The thresholds developed into a contiguous series of spaces intended to offer both a place to gather together and a place to retreat; to retreat whilst being part of the broader sunny world around. The underlying principle of the house is one of optimism, of creating something together. A single line insertion to the first floor, comprising a new stair and dual-sided bedroom joinery, defines the circulation and establishes a pathway through a double height day-lit void, hinting at the sunroom and roof garden above. Whilst the green roof isn?t trafficable, it serves its purpose to delight (butterflies arrived on installation) ...