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ArchiPro Project Summary - Thoughtfully designed alterations and additions to a Federation home in Georges Heights, enhancing natural light and creating a seamless connection to a lush rear garden with a vegetable patch and native bee hive.

Title:: House for BEES
Architect:: Downie North
Category:: Residential/; Renovations and Extensions
Photographers:: Clinton Weaver

Alterations and additions to a Federation home in the harbour-side suburb of Georges Heights, the proposed rear addition seeks to capture northern sunlight deep into the new rear open plan kitchen, dining and family room and connect strongly with the rear garden.

Featuring a unusually deep rear garden, replete with vegetable patch, native bee hive, shed and lawn, the implied informality of the garden inspired the proposed 'softness' of the proposal, with the formality of built space eroded by a series of implied thresholds and interstitial spaces where one can linger and measure the day.

Photography by Clinton Weaver

Builder: Wrightson & Co

Structural: SDA Structures

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Downie North. We design houses to be inviting, nurturing places for shared memories and heightening the every day. We are believers in less but better. We seek to create sustainable architecture that will endure and be loved well into the future.