Queens Park

by Madeleine Blanchfield Architects

From The Architects

The customers moved toward us to make another home in a legacy preservation region Sydney’s East.The challenge then lay in hiding a vast and modern two story home behind part of a solitary story federation facade. To respect the current building we received a collapsed rooftop frame class derived from the points of the current slate slating rooftop. The dynamic space quad made is reflected inside the house as a sensational collapsed stair void associating the two levels. The rest of the house is contemporary, light contemporary, lighting filled conversely line to the first home.

The current house on the site was not a legacy item, however its façade was a piece of a consistant column of houses and exemplary as a piece of this more extensive setting.

The brief was for a cutting edge, open and vaporous house that had a solid association with the garden and a feeling of security and openness in the meantime.

The financial plan for the house was not over the top. Choices had to be made on where spend and how to expand affect. The material palette is basic – dark, white and timber being the primary components. Painted battens are utilized on the upper rooftop shape to copy rooftop like qualities while giving screening and non-abrasiveness to the windows and dividers. Light and volume were the concentration in lieu of excessively costly materials or points of interest.

To respect the current building we embraced a collapsed rooftop shape gotten from the edges of the current slate rooftop. This collapsed shape twists to make the walls and windows of the upper level of the house, mixing it with the current rooftop and limiting the nearness of the second story from the road. The theoretical space made where the first and the new meet is reflected inside the house as a sensational precise stair void prompting the upper level.

The logical brief is met by giving a light filled, tense and contemporary home that is scarcely alluded to from the road. The main unmistakable expansion is unobtrusive, steady instead of bumping and totally easygoing to the current staying. Just after entering the first, lavish room at the front of the house do the gentility and volumes of the new spaces wind up plainly obvious.

The arranging is clear and basic, with living and kitchen spaces opening onto the garden on the lower level and rooms on the upper one. The back of the site is lower than the front so the back room ventures down to meet the garden and has a 4m high roof.

This high roof enabled us to consolidate high level galzing all through the living regions. The band of windows encompasses the house and proceeds between inside rooms. Joined with a huge cantilevered brought canopy down to diminish the effect of the evening sun on the west-bound façade, the high level glass gives a floating sense to the conceptual rooftop shape lodging the rooms.

Screens for sun-shading and protection on the bedroom level are done in the same painted battens as the stretched out rooftop to strengthen the structural articulation of a solitary rooftop shape floating over the glassy back structure.