Tree House | 6a Architects
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The Tree House was developed for the mother of a busy family who, in finding herself reliant on a wheelchair, was also increasingly confined to a single room. Her home is a pair of small grade II listed 1830s brick weavers cottages, joined together in the 1970s, and nestled within a luxuriantly overgrown and flower-filled garden. The ground-floor rooms of the two cottages are on different levels and both a half-storey above the surrounding gardens.
Courtesy of 6a Architects – Photographs : Johan Dehlin
The Tree House winds down around the trees, cinching itself in to get around the central sumac tree and breathing out again to accommodate a generous bedroom and bathroom below a eucalyptus. The bedroom faces onto a deck into the garden and looks back to the house where existing concrete columns have been reused to support a new timber-framed glazed verandah which ramps between the two original ground floor rooms. The kitchen, people moving through the house and even the street beyond are all glimpsed from the bedroom; the whole house reoriented around the garden. Courtesy of 6a Architects – Photographs : Johan Dehlin
The new construction is reversible, keeping its footprint light and ensuring listed building consent. It is timber-framed on timber foundations and clad in reclaimed Jarrah skimmings. Internally, the simply detailed white interior that forms a softly textured backdrop to the many framed view...
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