Solomon Street House, Perth Property, Building Extension, Architecture Images
Solomon Street House in Mosman Park
Home Renovations and Expansions, Perth, Australia ? design by Philip Stejskal Architecture
23 Jan 2017
Solomon Street House
Location: Mosman Park, Perth, Western Australia
Design: Philip Stejskal Architecture
Solomon Street House

Our project consists of alterations and additions to an existing 1980?s home on Solomon St in Mosman Park.

Our brief was to add a double garage off a rear laneway, augment storage, reconfigure the existing master bedroom, increase the size of existing minor bedrooms, and refurbish existing bathrooms. The budget was $200,000.00, construction cost marginally more.

The project was phased, with bathroom renovations comprising stage 1 (owner build) and the balance, stage 2 (registered builder).
With exception of bathrooms, the briefed program was to be located to the rear of the existing home, in order to establish a connection with the existing service lane.

We therefore conceived of the addition not as growing out of the existing architecturally designed home, rather as an element that comes at the home from the laneway.. collides and embeds itself into the fabric of the existing.
 
This element is given the form of a box to keep it visually distinct from the pitched roof of the existing. It is further differentiated by cladding it in ?supersix? fibre cement sheeting ? a language borrowed from the nearby laneway fencing ? and ...