Some relatively standard expenses for a house from the 1930s have recently plagued this house in Perth.
'The rear living rooms had no garden address or orientation towards the northern light. It was low, badly built, dark and cold, ”says Nic Brunsdon, director of the Brunsdon Studio.
The customer wanted to “make sense” the house and how contemporary living patterns could be added without getting too much into the garden. This outdoor space is an important part of the history of Perth, since the place of a former market garden is operated by Chinese immigrants.
Nic explains: “The house is aware of its context deep in the core country of the expansion between war accommodation at a location that was once a market garden for first -generation immigrants.
'As such, the new expansion innocently accepts a green palette – a new “green” property that is placed in the garden. Green, lively and referential. In this way it is a tribute to the increasingly lost inner -city market garden. '
With this story and the minimal natural light of the house, the expansion to the southernmost border of the property was pushed, which was an open “garden room” with one north.
The rooms within the open area are defined by the use of color, volume and light.
An ox bleeding area (with a new study on the bathroom on both sides) marks the entry point, which is deliberately darker and quieter than the remaining new rooms that correspond to the original rooms of the 1930s.
The kitchen, the restaurant and the living area beyond are divided into three same “containers”, as Nic explains.
'Each container then receives its own cut quality to fix unique lighting conditions. The volume above the kitchen is square and offers a height for exuberant informal conversations and the personal culture of the customer for cooking and sharing …
In the dining room, a pyramid rises to a small upper light, a place where you look at the day as a sundial during and between meals and follow the day.
“In the living room, a cylinder rises over the sunken lounge and is equipped with a window oriented to the west, which brings light in the late afternoon and creates the scope of the volume, bathes it in red, pink and oranges.”
The decision for a strong color palette did not require Brunsdon Studio. In addition to the color -naned extension, the new EN -Suite (which replaces the original kitchen) introduces a bright yellow scheme to climb with the morning sun.
Nic says the house gives the residents a new relationship with the light and the course of time.
'The new rooms are clearly defined and give the house logic and cadence. Each of these new rooms is then encouraged by different natural lighting conditions: tomorrow to the east for the kitchen, at noon for food and sunset pink for the living …
“You can now be calm and loud, introverted and connected, in peace and in the game.”