Lincoln
Project type: Residential – Additions and Alterations, Heritage
Year: 2024
Status: Schematic Design Completed
Construction to begin in 2025
The owners of this late 1800s Police Cottage wanted to update the house with an extension at the rear to meet the lifestyle requirements of contemporary family living. This house is on the council’s heritage inventory with the front streetscape and original front four rooms being protected from development. The original kitchen and bathroom were incredibly pokey, and the Clients had no means for entertaining guests, which was important to them as avid food and wine people.
The extension to the rear brings much needed amenity with a new generously sized kitchen and dining space, with a hidden laundry/powder and a scullery. The existing kitchen has then been transformed into a home office and the existing bathroom updated to increase in size and allow for a bathtub.
As the block is small, the new extension had to balance internal function with outdoor garden space. The extension is orientated and located to maximize northern light and connection to the existing green space on the east side. Stacking windows link the internal booth to a brick bench externally on the grassed area, and a banquet of doors at the rear open the house up for ventilation and sunlight.
The proposed material palette balances the Clients desire for a building that looks like it has always been there, with the councils desire for something that does not falsely imitate the existing heritage façade. The response therefore is a contemporary and simple form, with similar materials of red brick and white weatherboard. The weatherboard gives a fresh look to the existing houses rear wall and wraps around the laundry to meet the brick mass around the kitchen and dining spaces.
Conceptually the existing arches within the original home create an extruded archway void that becomes a spine throughout the whole house and into the new kitchen area. This is then reinforced with the corridor doors all being arches and lastly in the kitchen’s high ceiling composed of large downturn curves to create a uniquely sculptural experience.
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