By Brcar Morony Architects
Brcar Morony Architecture was approached to design the renovation of an existing ground floor 3-bedroom apartment in Rushcutters Bay, Sydney NSW.
The clients, who are a young family of three, wanted to explore possibilities of creative storage and working solutions for an executive, flexible and family orientated lifestyle within a modest footprint.
The brief was to transform a tired and dark apartment into an open, free flowing and interconnected series of spaces that would extend through to their external private courtyard.
Removing existing external walls and the enlargement of existing internal openings provides better connection with a seamless indoor/outdoor transition.
A contemporary, classic and neutral colour palette was selected. The aesthetic consists of warm American oak solid timber floor boards layed in a herringbone pattern, a combination of American oak and white polyurethane joinery elements, black steel door frames, and restrained use of Carrara marble throughout the kitchen and bathroom.
Innovative and clever strategies were used to create spaces and nooks throughout the apartment; a study desk now suspends within an existing doorway which transforms into a display or service area for the dining room. Slender profiled joinery was designed to display, store and conceal whilst not becoming over bearing within the spaces.
Solid timber American oak reveals where installed to the new and enlarged openings within the apartment. These three timber portal frames provide a visual connection and overall warmth and generous sense of scale to the apartment.
Photo Credit: Justin Alexander
Natalie Brcar and Michael Morony cofounded Brcar Morony Architecture in 2015.
Natalie and Michael first met in 1999 at the University of Technology Sydney where they commenced the first of their two degrees in Architecture. Throughout their six years of university studies they had the opportunity to work together on numerous occasions. This joint study, shared interests and mutually agreeable beliefs and thoughts on design was the beginning of a collaborative partnership.
Now in our eighth year of operation, Brcar Morony Architecture is a young energetic architectural practice with a friendly easy going attitude. We are down to earth architects who are pragmatic planners of spaces and volume. We are design focused and concept driven. Our design thinking and process to deliver architecture is under pinned with dedication and focus, strong collaboration with the client’s brief and expectations and working with the project site constraints and opportunites. We accompany our design thinking with a selection of materials that are fit for purpose, chosen for their warmth, texture, durability and aesthetics.