David Barr Architects has added a bright and roomy two-floor extension to a cottage near Perth, Australia so that its owners can have their grown-up children come to stay.
The cottage is situated in the port city of Fremantle along Marine Terrace road, from where the project takes its name.
Marine belongs to a couple with three adult children, two of whom reside in other regions of Australia while one lives overseas.

Local practice David Barr Architects has designed the two-storey Marine extension to comfortably accommodate the mum and dad's living quarters.
This means when the children come to visit they can independently stay in the existing cottage and come and go as they please without troubling their parents.

Various lean-tos had been disjointedly attached to the cottage over the years and, although they were being demolished, the clients felt the structures had "beautiful qualities" that could be referenced in the extension. "They were very keen to capture the character of the existing structures in the design of the new addition ? the texture of the brickwork, the aged timber and the instant warm that you get from the finished product," the practice's founder, David Barr, told Dezeen.

With this in mind, the practice decided to clad the front elevation of the Marine extension in lime-washed bricks.
The upper volume of the extension features chamfered walls that gently slope inwards towards the windows. These angled surfaces create dramatic shado...