Forrest Street House in Fremantle
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Forrest Street House in Fremantle
Home Renovations and Expansions, Australia ? design by Philip Stejskal Architecture
20 Feb 2019
Forrest Street House
Location: Fremantle, Western Australia
Design:Â Philip Stejskal Architecture
Forrest Street House
Philip Stejskal Architecture’s clients had a typical Fremantle weatherboard cottage from the 1920, they wanted to remove the 1950s lean-to structure and add a substantial renovation.
In early design conversations with the clients they noted a difference in their personalities, one an introvert the other an extrovert. To Marty, home was a backdrop for entertaining and about being around friends and family. Whilst for Soo home was a sanctuary where she could find space and time for solitude and an escape from the corporate Monday to Friday environment. It also needed to fulfil their needs as a young family.
Commonality was found in a desire for a well integrated, fluid, casual, light and airy home. Where they could find what they called ?engaged separation?.
Acoustic separation was also a consideration.
We discussed creating an addition that could be identified as new and separate from the existing cottage but that also appropriated some of the material characteristics of the original home and, by extension, the surrounding context.
The architectural response became a lower linking structure leading into a double volume space conta...
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