Bannerman House, Bendigo Home Extension, Victoria Real Estate Redesign, Architecture Images
Bannerman House in Bendigo, Victoria
Contemporary Australian Home in Victoria, Australia – design by Bijl Architecture
20 Oct 2019
Bannerman House
Architects: Bijl Architecture
Location: Bendigo, Victoria, Australia

This former coach-house located in Bendigo, Victoria offered Bijl Architecture the opportunity to explore heritage and adaptive design from a new perspective when redesigning Bannerman House.

Carved off from the adjacent original gold-rush era mansion many decades ago, the Victorian-era building had been converted to a dwelling in the 1970s, and now sat on an unusual square allotment that created an uneasy relationship with the street.
With the adapted dwelling purchased in a dark and decrepit state, our client ? a busy music educator and conductor ? briefed us to create a family home for contemporary living that would accommodate a grand piano in a salon-style environment for the teaching and enjoyment of music. The house needed to exude delight, charm, compactness and comfort.

Given the site constraints, instead of adding a modern form solely to the rear of the structure, we ‘wrapped’ the coach-house volume to bring about a new focal point and balance to the site occupation. As a result, the addition transitions and flows into the sandstone volume, without a marked division between heritage and contemporary. Inspired by the work of minimalist a...