By Poly Studio
This project involved the refurbishment of a Queen Anne style house within the historic Grace Park precinct in Hawthorn. Key interventions included the reconfiguration of the master bedroom to incorporate a new En Suite bathroom, and the replacement of the upstairs bathrooms. The clients were also keen to strip out the vestiges of previous interventions, including all fixtures and hardware, which were looking tired and dated. In their place, we devised a sympathetic but contemporary palette of fixtures and finishes which was applied throughout the house.
year: 2017
builder: Markus Builders
photos: Tatjana Plitt
Poly Studio is passionate about designing contemporary and sustainable buildings that utilise clever design to provide the most amenity from the least resources. Led by Daniel Wolkenberg, the studio has considerable experience working on a broad range of projects large and small, including residential, multi-residential and mixed-use typologies.
We believe that the best design solutions emerge from an intensive and open process of collaboration with our clients. Our approach embraces the emergence of unique and responsive solutions from the design process itself in a positive feedback loop that exceeds what may have been imagined at the outset.
Our design approach seeks to embed each building into its specific time and place, responding with sensitivity to the unique constraints and opportunities of each site. We view sustainability as both a necessary ethical imperative but also integral to the challenge of making each building ‘fit for purpose’, both now and into the future. We look for the synergies within the overlay of budget, sustainability and performance to achieve the best performance for the least cost.
Poly Studio is registered with the Architects Registration Board of Victoria. We are members of the Australian Institute of Architects, Architeam and the Australian Passive House Association.