Project Page Jarrad St

JARRAD ST, COTTESLOE
PROJECT TYPE: ADDITION

A modernist box dropped onto a historic Federation house to provide a suite of rooms for a growing family.

A highly contrasting addition, in the manner of a modernist box is dropped on a historic federation house.  The upper floor additions provide a suite of rooms for 3 boys, including a large play space.  Zinc cladding gives a strong grain of exquisite surface texture.  Horizontal and vertical lines into which windows are carefully located.  Internally the stairwell and hall open up the roof-space to present a complex and large volume height above a canyon like hall.  The final connection between existing and addition is made by an exquisitely detailed, perforated metal stair whose sheer translucency reveals the drama of this space.  The addition was prefabricated and craned into its location minimizing the amount of time clients were out of their home.

Builder: NEXUS;
Status: Completed (2015).