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Kensington
The owners of a 1920’s brick bungalow located in the Sydney conservation area of Kensington wanted to re-design their home in order to provide extra living space, while creating a better connection with the outside spaces.
Architects Fox Johnston came to the rescue with an impressive renovation design that maintained the integrity of the existing home, while adding a discrete addition to the rear of the home.
“The owners loved the existing house so we made every effort to retain the feeling of the original building from the street. A single storey masonry addition was grafted onto the back of the original building allowing the home to embrace a large garden courtyard,” said Felix Junker from Fox Johnston.
The new addition was designed with the house’s orientation and its ability to capture light and breezes in mind. The roof of the new addition lifts up to the north to allow sun filtration throughout the space.
Fox Johnston are turning to brick increasingly for residential projects due to its thermal and acoustic properties.
“There is such a wide range of bricks available now, the facades can be designed as simply or intricately as you desire,” Felix said.
Face bricks were used creatively in the new addition, with the architects experimenting with the use of brick inside and out.
“We wanted the addition to read as a complete masonry clad element – this meant that the bricks were expressed inside and out and in the articulation of openings,” Felix said.
“My favourite part of the home is the robustness and bareness of the brick structure – the way it is unashamedly nestled in to the rear of the house yet feels sympathetic to the old house. The way the roof lifts up to capture the northern sun and its intimacy and connectedness to the garden all round.”
Quick Facts
House NameKensington
State NSW
Brick Type Austral Bricks Bowral Blue
Contact Fox Johnston
Web Site http://www.foxjohnston.com.au
