Kew Cottage banner
Project by
Building style
Cottage

The addition to this home is an evolution of the existing Victorian weatherboard house referencing simple roof forms, humble materiality and a careful reinterpretation of the separate spaces of the existing home.

The brief for the home was to simply extend the existing house to support a growing family, to ensure the home was light filled while also capturing some qualities of the existing house.

Our approach to this brief was to maintain the condition of separate rooms in the addition and pull them apart. Creating separate pavilions to the rear of the existing dwelling that are connected via circulation and enclosed by skylights. When the space between a pavilion is an outside space a courtyard fills the gap allowing the rooms a chance to breathe with light and air between the separate rooms of the new addition.

Above each pavilion is a pitched roof form that references the roof forms of the existing house and those of the surrounding neighborhood. The roof form of each pavilion has a unique geometry that is open to the space below which changes the quality of light in each space.

Photography: Ben Hosking

Visit Website
Photography: Ben Hosking
Photography: Ben Hosking
Photography: Ben Hosking
Photography: Ben Hosking
Photography: Ben Hosking

About the
Professional

WALTER&WALTER  is a cross-disciplinary collection of people that use design and research to create innovative, sustainable and memorable experiences for people.

We are a design studio that seeks out innovative design solutions to meet the unique needs of our clients. We are an award-winning architecture studio that is becoming known for work that explores the possibilities of architecture by thoughtfully considering the relationships between tradition, culture, sustainability and context.

We are based in Melbourne, Australia on the land of the Wurundjeri and Boon Wurrung people of the Eastern Kulin nation on whose country we live, work and create.

We work locally and internationally.

We acknowledge the Wurundjeri and Boon Wurrung people of the Eastern Kulin nation on whose country we live, work and create.

We also acknowledge the traditional custodians where our projects are placed, their ongoing connection to country, land and waters that were never ceded and pay our respects to Elders, past, present and future generations.