Bent Cottage by BENT Architecture

Bent Cottage

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This renovation and extension of an 1890’s weatherboard house in Hawthorn aims to accommodate the needs of a growing family within the confines of a tiny suburban site. A new north facing living space is located to facilitate a direct connection to both rear and front gardens, maximising the potential for outdoor living and play. Additional rooms are accommodated within a two storey volume designed to both minimise the building footprint and maximise garden space; this volume is manipulated to respond to site conditions and neighbouring properties which are in close proximity. Intended to be experienced as a continuation of the history of the home, additions are clad in white weatherboards and corrugated sheet roofing, as the original house is metaphorically stretched to envelop new spaces. BENT Team: Paul Porjazoski, Louisa Macleod, Merran Porjazoski, Builder: Elliot Homes P/L Structural Engineer: Clive Steele Partners P/L Photography: Folded Bird Photography Media: 2010 The Age 'Domain' _ "The Little Big Home" 2011 'Forty Six' _ "Weatherboards & pitched roofs are the familiar, the everyday"

This renovation and extension of an 1890’s weatherboard house in Hawthorn aims to accommodate the needs of a growing family within the confines of a tiny suburban site. Read more

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BENT Architecture
Folded Bird Photography

This renovation and extension of an 1890’s weatherboard house in Hawthorn aims to accommodate the needs of a growing family within the confines of a tiny suburban site.

A new north facing living space is located to facilitate a direct connection to both rear and front gardens, maximising the potential for outdoor living and play. Additional rooms are accommodated within a two storey volume designed to both minimise the building footprint and maximise garden space; this volume is manipulated to respond to site conditions and neighbouring properties which are in close proximity. Intended to be experienced as a continuation of the history of the home, additions are clad in white weatherboards and corrugated sheet roofing, as the original house is metaphorically stretched to envelop new spaces.

BENT Team:
Paul Porjazoski, Louisa Macleod, Merran Porjazoski,

Builder:
Elliot Homes P/L

Structural Engineer:
Clive Steele Partners P/L

Photography:
Folded Bird Photography

Media:
2010 The Age 'Domain' _ "The Little Big Home"
2011 'Forty Six' _ "Weatherboards & pitched roofs are the familiar, the everyday"

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