Thornbury House, Melbourne Real Estate, Australian Building Development, Architecture Images
Thornbury House in Melbourne
Real Estate Development in Victoria, Australia ? design by Field Office Architecture
27 Sep 2018
Thornbury House
Design: Field Office Architecture
Location: Thornbury, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Thornbury House
Designed for a family 4 (and 1 on the way) Thornbury House is a collective effort and collaboration between Architect and Interior Designer, Kali Cavanagh, and builder FrankBuilt.

The Client approached Field Office Architecture with a fairly simple brief – Provide a light-filled, simple, durable and modern extension that doesn’t require excessive heating and cooling all year round. They also wanted to be able to walk directly from the living room onto a lawn whilst entertaining and have the kids roam inside and out freely and within full sight.
An original early 1900s Victorian era dwelling, the house had had many an add hock extension over the years, and the first approach was to strip all of this back to the original form, both externally to the rear, but also internally. There were wonderful higher ceilings with ornate plasterwork along with gorgeous fireplaces that had been blocked up and hidden for a number of years which we saw as a mandatory opportunity open up and reveal.

With the rear of the dwelling facing directly north, the opportunity to open up the living spaces in this orientation was obvious. We embraced this fu...