Recently redesigned and extended by Jost Architects, this inspiring house is located in St Kilda, Australia.

Description
We took a classic weatherboard cottage located in St Kilda with a council Heritage Overlay and removed the previous 1980s extension to the rear. The two front bedrooms and bathroom on the ground floor, being part of the original main area of the house were retained. The brief was to add a master bedroom, ensuite, WIR and an east facing deck on the upper level and to refurbish the ground floor bathroom, new kitchen and to utilise the small area of land to the north east.
This is where things got interesting. Because the site tapered, becoming narrower to the rear, and the proposed building was intended to utilise this valuable unused space, it meant that the shape of the building also tapered. The geometry applied ensured that the upper level façades presented symmetrically to each ends of the property. We deliberately made the new additions visibly contemporary in contrast to the existing dwelling, but did not move too far away from the original. The galvanised custom orb cladding wraps up one side, over and down on the other, intersecting with the weatherboard cladding. Both familiar materials found on the classic Victorian workers cottages found in this part of St Kilda. The screened internal space is visually permeable, becoming an active and changing aspect of the dwelling depending on the time of day, conditions and lighting. T...