438 Billeder af brunt, violet brunt hus

Simon Wood Photography

This detached Victorian house was extended to accommodate the needs of a young family with three small children. The programme was organized into two distinctive structures: the larger and higher volume is placed at the back of the house to face the garden and make the best use of the south orientation and to accommodate a large Family Room open to the new Kitchen. A longer and thinner volume, only 1.15m wide, stands to the western side of the house and accommodates a Toilet, a Utility and a dining booth facing the Family Room. All the functions that are housed in the secondary volume have direct access either from the original house or the rear extension, thus generating a hierarchy of served and servant volumes, a relationship that is homogeneous to that between the house and the extension. The timber structures, while distinctive in their proportions, are connected by a shallow volume that doubles as a bench to create an architectural continuum and to emphasize the effect of a secondary volume wrapped around a primary one. While the extension makes use of a modern idiom, so that it is clearly distinguished from the original house and so that the history of its development becomes immediately apparent, the size of the red cedar cladding boards, left untreated to allow a natural silvering process, matches that of the Victorian brickwork to bind house and extension together. As the budget did not make possible the use a bespoke profile, an off-the-shelf board was selected and further grooved at mid point to recreate the brick pattern of the façade. A tall and slender pivoting door, positioned at the boundary between the original house and the new intervention, allows a direct view of the garden from the front of the house and facilitates an innovative relationship with the outside. Photo: Gianluca Maver

Brett Boardman Recycled timber louvres framed with textured concrete create a unique entry for each terrace house.

Werner Huthmacher

Warm and welcoming contemporary cedar-clad family home with stone work framing the entrance. Easy access internal garaging.

Im Laufe der Zeit wird die Holzfassade des Doppelhauses in Düsseldorf durch Witterung und Sonneneinwirkung eine Patina erhalten und auf natürlichem Wege altern.

Exterior of a Pioneer Log Home of BC

Foto: Christian Horn, Fürth

Laser cut decorative metal art by Entanglements. Featuring privacy screening balustrade. 'Pebbles' outdoor design theme

The property was originally a bungalow that had had a loft conversion with 2 bedrooms squeezed in and poor access. The ground floor layout was dated and not functional for how the client wanted to live. In order to convert the bungalow into a true 2 storey house, we raised the roof and created a new stair and landing / hallway. This allowed the property to have 3 large bedrooms and 2 bathrooms plus an open study area on the first floor. To the ground floor we created a open plan kitchen-dining-living room, a separate snug, utility, WC and further bedroom with en-suite.

Great big old shed turned into self-contained guest accommodation in the Huon Valley, Tasmania. All photographs by Perversi-Brooks Architects.

David Barbour

Thomas Ebert