GABLE SKYLIGHT ALTERATION
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.