Granted Planning Q3 2024.
Extension and renovation of an end-of-terrace, two-storey dwelling built in the Garden City of Marino between 1925-1926.
The house is one of eight irregularly shaped corner sites created by the geometry of the Garden City plan with its interlocking roundabouts and circular greens. The corner site offers a unique urban presence and potential for extension.
The design involves the demolition of the existing single-storey rear extension & existing chimney, and construction of a single-storey flat-roofed extension to the rear with a unique projecting structure, a single-storey flat-roofed front porch extension, and internal renovations. Both extensions feature circular rooflights.
The rear extension is designed with a lower roof section along the boundary line replicating the location, height & position of the existing parapet line of the existing single-storey extension. Retaining the visual separation from the neighbours’ perspective, mitigates the impact of the new extension on the neighbour’s house & garden. This design feature enshrines privacy between neighbours while improving the spatial relationship between both homes. Internally, this lower roof section of the new extension will house the kitchen and a built-in snug using a challenging ceiling height as a design opportunity. A projecting beam & feature column creates a glass corner in the new dining room free from structural constraints & lets the residents incorporate hanging seats into their garden.
The extension to the front of the home creates a generous new entrance, relocated from the side of the house, with cloaks & boot storage, as well as a new bathroom & utility space. The front extension has been designed following the building lines of the two terraces resulting in a geometry that responds to the existing house & surrounding context while incorporating a contemporary architectural intervention into this corner site. Repositioning the entrance significantly improves the internal layout of the existing house and its relationship to the surrounding garden & streetscape as the home is effectively street-facing which offers “eyes on the street” and turns the existing main entrance into a garden-facing window with a well considered and generous relationship with the private garden.
The design also includes for the replacement and relocation of the existing timber-clad concrete wall demarcating the back garden, and creating a new timber clad boundary wall which aligns with the new front extension, and integrates with the entrance design. This gives the homeowners a more generous, private garden while retaining a generous front garden which is a characteristic of these corner sites.
