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MEDIA ROOM ©Michael Lassman

Living Screen House is a detached single residence owned by a family who had resided at the original property for 18 years prior to the redevelopment. The property is located in North Bondi, a coastal suburb of Sydney, Australia with a moderate climate and a strong sense of community. The client’s brief was for a home which could be a springboard for entertaining indoors and outdoors as well as a private retreat for their family of five. A key requirement of the house was to make it easier to do the things they love; entertaining, embracing the company of their children in their formative years as young adults and surfing at nearby Bondi Beach.

EXTERIOR NIGHT VIEW ©Murray Fredericks

The narrow site is overlooked by neighbouring double storey houses and low-rise apartment blocks across the street, creating significant privacy and natural light access challenges for the family. The form of the final building was driven by the need to resolving these concerns while incorporating passive solar design and natural daylighting principles. In fact, the requirements of the brief were such that they could not be accommodated in a traditional sense due to the property size. The seemingly impossible requirement for a green, leafy garden outlook and a lap pool drove an unorthodox solution to accommodate the first requirement on a vertical garden basis and the latter requirement as an extension of the living room which also resolved access to sunlight by using the body of pool water to reflect and refract natural light to living spaces. It is almost unfair to take credit for producing solutions that would not have been achievable without these constraints.

POOL NIGHT ©Murray Fredericks

POOL UNDERWATER ©Jem Creswell

To increase privacy from pedestrian traffic, the entry was partially sunken and screening elements were introduced to the street elevation and all other faces of the property. On approach, the fully irrigated, low maintenance, LED-lit living green wall screens and custom planter beds to the front and side façades are immediately visible. These ensure privacy from neighbours and pedestrian traffic, while also providing a natural green outlook for the home’s occupants. The layering of privacy fabric was determined on the site during construction by the clients.

FRONT ENTRY ©Michael Lassman

ENTRY DOOR ©Michael Lassman

Secure storage for sports equipment is accessible from the entry courtyard, which has made it easier to grab a surfboard and head to the beach after work or school without tracking sand into the house. Conceptually, the spatial planning of the house separates the social and family spaces. At ground level the interconnected kitchen, living, dining and outdoor spaces create an engaging spatial experience where intimate family gatherings and larger social gatherings achieve a sense of comfort and belonging. Providing spaces that allow both a physical and mental sense of connection to family, whilst providing space for individual family members and room for contemplation is a critical component to a home that will nurture and nourish for generations.

POOL FROM COUTYARD ©Michael Lassman

POOL ©Murray Fredericks

One of several very specific requirements included a kitchen that would enable a high degree of interaction with both family and guests during food preparation, an activity that was central to our clients love for making and connecting through food. To achieve this, the galley kitchen and island bench include carefully considered lighting and mirror splashbacks to maintain connection with guests and supervision of the swimming pool during food preparation.

STAIRS TO KITCHEN ©Murray Fredericks

KITCHEN ©Murray Fredericks

Similarly, the above ground lap-pool is designed to facilitate interaction with those in the social spaces of the home. The pool shares a clear wall with the double height social space, acting as a visual connection between the interior and exterior spaces and refracting natural light throughout the lower level of the house.

POOL FROM LIVING ROOM ©Murray Fredericks

INDOOR LIVING ©Murray Fredericks

Upstairs is a private family level, with a parent’s retreat, children’s bedrooms and family bathrooms. Each bedroom enjoys an outlook onto private outdoor green space, to both vertical screen gardens and ground-level native planting.

The craftsmanship of the build is elegantly revealed in the material palette, which includes unfinished cement bonded wood composite boards, burnished concrete, expressed timber, Corten facade and steel and timber columns that celebrate the structural systems in the new home.

DINING ©Murray Fredericks

The use of raw, low embodied energy materials, 10,000 litre rainwater storage tanks and a massive 10kWh solar system on the roof delivers a near zero carbon outcome. CplusC recycled demolished timbers from the original roof framing to create the client’s master bedroom king bedframe, not only to reduce waste, but to connect the clients in their most intimate of spaces with their 18 years history in the house so it would be forever remembered – the idea or the concept that your history of place will always be the foundation of your future generations.

MASTER BEDROOM ©Murray Fredericks

MASTER BEDROOM ©Murray Fredericks

The existing concrete street elevation car stand was an existing and approved condition that could not be reciprocated due to statutory changes in any current development application. As such, the rare capacity to have two off-street parking spaces was not compromised from the outset.

INDOOR LIVING NIGHT ©Murray Fredericks

Since handover, the family have hosted a 21st birthday party, a family Christmas gathering and many impromptu barbeques with friends and report that the home exceeds their dreams. The clients travelled to Berlin with director, Clinton Cole and Ryan Ng (Project Architect) to support their shortlisting in the most prestigious awards system in the world – The World Architecture Festival (WAF) Awards where suffice to say many celebrations were had and life-long connections were formed.

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