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The Playful House in Brighton
Contemporary Building Development in South Australia – design by Martin Friedrich Architects
7 Nov 2018
The Playful House
Design: Martin Friedrich Architects
Location: Brighton, Adelaide, South Australia
The Playful House
A young couple with 3 children approached Martin Friedrich Architects after seeing a Brighton town house project. They loved the clean modern lines, look and feel of this project, however wanted a more playful and fun house. This was to reflect their personality, active lifestyle and love of entertaining.

The brief was to highly renovate their existing house largely from the 1980?s albeit was actually a renovation of a 1930?s house. They wanted to open up the small tight passages with low ceilings, create large spaces in the living zones and bring in light into this dark house. Planning regulations also allowed for reduced side setbacks based on the precedence set by an existing building. However after all of this, the existing house was of such poor construction that it was largely unusable albeit we still followed much of the existing side envelope.
The bold new façade, greets visitors with strong sweeping forms of 2 storey curved cast in situ concrete. These envelop and frame the existing outline of the building and projecting balcony and entry canopy below. The façade is further broken up by double storey full height glazing. A 2-...