also known as EAST STREET ALTERATIONS + ADDITIONS completed alterations & additions residence
in association under Philip Stejskal Architecture 2022, EAST FREMANTLE
Builder: MH Quality Builders Photographer: Jack Lovel
Shortlisted for Houses Award Alterations & Additions under 200 sqm
The original home consisted of three elements, a workers cottage to the street, a lean-to in the middle and a brick addition to the rear. It was the deterioration of the central lean-to that prompted the owners to embark on this project.
The aim was to replace the ailing middle portion, but also to improve the overall functionality of the home, its relationship to context and with its backyard. The approach was to graft in a new middle.
The grafted middle delivers a tonic of fresh air and light through a gable skylight volume and re-orients the house to north and sky, creating new connections with the outdoor deck space and trellis.
Reinterpreting a traditional cladding of board batten and adaptation of a gable roof form, drawing on the ubiquitous postwar garden trellis, anchors the architectural expression of the house.
in collaboration with Nguyen Thien Khiem
2021, SCULPTURES BY THE SEA COTTESLOE
Photographer: Nicholas Putrasia, Iwan Isnin, Lee Yang Yang
The work recalls memories of the lighthouse and the lifeguard station. Both architectural elements of the seaside, allowing oneself to be enclosed, to look up, the precarious climb, in anticipation of the view of the horizon beyond, above the sea of sand.
in association under Philip Stejskal Architecture
2017, WEMBLEY DOWNS
Builder: RK Brine
Photographer: Bo Wong
Model Photographer: Robert Frith
A new house in a leafy suburb of Perth, replacing the owner’s original home previously on the same block. An existing terraced garden the link to what was there before. This forms the focus of the new home, which begins as a double storey west-facing block with outdoor northern void and entry void recessed into the block, providing internal spaces diffused light. And at the lower garden level, the house embraces to bring the outside in.
in association under Philip Stejskal Architecture
2017, SCARBOROUGH
Builder: Haven Construction
Photographer: Roger D’Souza
Model Photographer: Robert Frith
A new house on the leeward side of a beach-side dune in Scarborough.
Three storeys each interact with distinct aspects of the site. The house engages with the street through the gesture of a courtyard, which collects northern light and sea breeze. A bay window frames distant views and closer views down to the pool. Below, a family room cuts into the dune and opens out toward the backyard. Above, the master bedroom and study connect further afield and lead to a turret, a viewing platform that looks out toward the Indian Ocean.
completed two storey residential / office addition
in association under Philip Stejskal Architecture
2019, SOUTH FREMANTLE
Builder: Capozzi Building
Photographer (daytime): Dion Robeson
Finalist of Commercial 2020 Architeam Awards
Shortlisted to 2020 The Work Space INDE Awards
Winner of WA Lighting Award, 2020 WA Architecture Awards
Originally as a shop, then as a home, now re-modelled as a series of flexible spaces to serve as a temporary residence for the owners with the ability to switch to an office in a few years.
Insertion of a floating mezzanine home-office space, pulled back from the edges of the building to admit daylight to the ground floor and to introduce spatial connection between the levels.
Internally, a monochrome interior predominates to provide a neutral backdrop to the clients’ collection of objects and art, and calmness in smaller spaces.
in association under Philip Stejskal Architecture 2017, FREMANTLE
Builder: D&L Building Photographer: Bo Wong
Winner of Residential New 2018 Architeam Awards Commendation to 2018 Houses Awards Winner of Residential Architecture (New Houses), 2018 WA Architecture Awards
A home that provides a place of recuperation and solace, yet is equally enmeshed within the diverse suburb of Fremantle. A robust house with a sense of grounding, a constancy in contrast to the flux of the owner’s fly-in fly-out profession.
A compact home spiralling from an introverted perforated grey brick base and trellis garden, upward through a light-filled first floor, to a roof-level terrace, which connects the dwelling to its surrounds.
in association under Philip Stejskal Architecture
2018, KENSINGTON
Builder: Assemble
Photographer: Roger D’Souza
Model Photographer: Rob Frith
An addition that is separated from the existing cottage by a brick link that pauses between the two built elements – both spatial and chronological – tailored to owner’s salvaged bricks.
The addition: a timber-framed carved into from its northern diagonal point, going west, creating a reveal that protects glazing from the summer sun, fitted with rotatable fins and battens for sun and privacy.
Climbing plants to claim this structure over time — connecting the garden and roof terrace; that is positioned and curtailed to reduce overlooking, yet pointed towards the view of the city.
An airy and light-filled extension with a focus on the verdant garden and borrowed vegetation further afield.
in association under Philip Stejskal Architecture
2019, COTTESLOE
Landscape Architect: ATLAS
Builder: Portrait Custom Homes
Photographer: Bo Wong
A house for a young family with a love for the beach, water-sports, cooking and community. The concept for the design was built around a certain nostalgia: … memories of barefoot journeys across hot dunes, surfboards under arm, sinking into sand, low silver bushes scraping at ankles, anticipation of the water palpable.
We imagined such a journey across our clients’ site, itself formerly the leeward slope of the final dune before the sea, wanting to design the home around the narrative of this lazy meandering, this quintessentially Australian journey.
So we described a path across the site, up the hill, and built the house around it.
An open carport at street level allows physical passage as well as visual access under and through to the garden, itself a gentle upward slope with endemic vegetation and orientation to secure generous northern aspect to the internal spaces.
The house situates itself around this central garden, with views back down the slope to the street, connecting private living spaces with the wider community context.
A second garden space exists to the west, with the main living room having access to both.
The house is designed to allow a casual and carefree lifestyle. Materials seek to imbue the home with a robustness required for everyday life, yet also a softness and flexibility — dappled light and blurred boundaries.
