Bromley Residence by Dalecki Design - Project Feature - The Local Project

Engaging with the surrounding landscape, Bromley Residence balances open and closed methodologies to form a calm sanctuary. Dalecki Designs proposes a modest outer form to fulfil an efficient brief within a bounded and protective outer envelope and encased series of landscape spaces.

Located on a challenging allotment, Bromley Residence carefully navigates the issue of scale by adopting a tightly woven approach. Focusing on creating a home that felt connective and free flowing, the team worked to ensure a sense of separation between the active and passive areas of the home. With a neutral and natural base throughout, the aim was to ensure an elevated personalisation of its owners was ingrained into the foundations of the home, with moveable elements added to accommodate flexibility over the years. Drawn to more minimalist resolutions, the owners adopted a mantra of ‘less is more’ from the inception, inspired to continue a journey of restraint in creating their ideal family home with Dalecki Design.

The exterior form is comprised of a combination of masonry and timber to anchor the home in place and establish a natural connection. A similar palette is then brought inside where a calming combination of cool finishes and robust polished concrete flooring create the ideal base for the family home. The similar nature of the tones emphasises texture and an engagement with incoming natural light. Allowing for seamless access between the built form and the natural landscaping, the quality of the lived experience is the focus of the brief.

Although contained to one storey, the scale of the resulting home is made to feel generous through increased internal ceiling heights and the use of a lighter palette. Marked by hit-and-miss patterning within the brickwork, the transitionary elements express varying transparency and the integration of warmer and earthy tones offers a dynamic balance. As a three-bedroom, two-bathroom home, maintaining an openness was key. As lovers of midcentury design, the owners wanted to overlay the considered nature in which the Modernist movement integrated joinery within the home, allowing for partitions to be formed whilst allowing the home to remain open.

Located on a challenging allotment, Bromley Residence carefully navigates the issue of scale by adopting a tightly woven approach.

A carefully considered cohesion of its elements, Bromley Residence is born from a base of quality and longevity. Dalecki Design overlays warmth through a layering of texture and tactility whilst ensuring the overall home accommodates an opportunity for graceful ageing in place.

Drawn to more minimalist resolutions, the owners adopted a mantra of ‘less is more’ from the inception, inspired to continue a journey of restraint in creating their ideal family home with Dalecki Design.