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Randwick Pavilion in Sydney
Residential Development in New South Wales, Australia ? design by MASQ architecture
22 May 2018
Randwick Pavilion
Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Design: MASQ architecture
Randwick Pavilion

MASQ architecture’s inspiration for the project lay in the established backyard which sat sunken down slightly from the surrounding. The brief was to add a new living room space, kitchen and accompanying dining room. MASQ architecture particularly wanted to have the living room feel very much like a pavilion in the garden, however they saw this as an enclosed and protected space as much as it needed to be connected to the garden.
The architects created a brick wall that enveloped the upper level which was then suspended above glass doors and windows below. At the northern edge of the space a low level brick ledge forms a seat at the threshold between inside and outside; with the windows fully open the space dissolves while the mass of the brick wall above provides intimacy and controls light into the space. MASQ architecture resisted the temptation of the ubiquitous high level northern windows but favoured the solid wall that rounds the corner gently then peels away from the façade.

The wall breaks away becoming a brick screen protecting the glazing to the west whilst accentuating the floating effect of the solid mass further. Considered as a ...