double bay

Project profile

This house embraces its family of five, its context, its courtyard and its north western orientation.

The tight corner site is bounded by a heavily trafficked street to the south and a secondary street to the west carrying slow moving cars and beachgoing foot traffic. A pair of handsome contemporary town houses sit to the north of the site while a three storey interwar apartment block running the full length of the eastern boundary is screened by conifers. The original house was poorly oriented, could not accommodate the required amenity and the family’s needs and had no architectural merit.