the existing Edwardian

This family home designed by Melbourne based Jackson Clements Burrows Architects involved the design of alterations and addition to an existing Edwardian house of some historical significance which is located in an area with a heritage overlay. The idea of the house was organised around finding a compatible but distinctive relationship between the existing interior and the new addition and the existing external form and the new addition. This was achieved through the use of a common materiality contrasting black brick for the new against red brick in the old which for me is just genius. The pitched external roof forms, a requirement of stringent heritage guidelines which were expressed as “twin peaked” gable ends.  Internally the new addition uses white painted timber lining boards and exposed internal black work to define a new family living space. The unexpected beauty of these finishes that one would expect to find on the exterior of the building seem quite at home in the interior of this minimalist home.

story by Richard Misso. To see more by JCB Architectsn images courtesy of JCB