Alexandra Residence
Our clients came to us with a brief to renovate their existing house to enhance the current living space while providing access to previous underutilised aspects. Specifically these included:
Light - very important as natural light was lacking in the current home. They wanted to flood the living spaces and bedrooms with natural light.
Diversity - The living space needed to work as areas for our family to grow, live, function, and provide privacy.
Space efficiency - given the modest size of available land, space needed to be efficiently deployed with dead space kept to a minimum.
Storage - there was a lacking in the existing dwelling, specifically bedrooms, kitchen, lounge, etc.
The original building was built in 1928 for two spinster sisters, as a classic weatherboard Californian bungalow with the 4 original rooms divided by a central corridor. Their decision to renovate was influenced by a love for the area and what it represents.
The client provided a stylistic aim with key words such as urban, ethnic, industrial, technical, warm, diversity in materials (steel, reclaimed/reused, wood, concrete, iron). They also expressed a desire that the final build must reflect the local history of the house and the area they belong to.
Builder: Blue Star Build
Photographer: Spectral Modes Photography
