The Linton House by Sonelo Architects

ArchiPro Project Summary - A thoughtfully reimagined interwar duplex in Melbourne, The Linton House combines modern living with lush garden views, featuring a charred timber addition and a striking walnut staircase, perfect for a growing multigenerational family.

Title:: The Linton House
Architect:: Sonelo Architects
Category:: Residential/; Renovations and Extensions
Photographers:: Pier Carthew

The Linton House is a multigenerational home for a young family seeking a permanent base in a leafy suburban pocket of Melbourne’s inner eastern suburbs. Located on an idyllic curved street overlooking a railway reserve, this interwar period flats conversion sought to meet the needs of a growing family while embracing the verdant surroundings.

Existing double storey duplex, characterized by its terracotta roof and stucco wall, is sheer in size but well positioned on the site. Its retention is logical. Its alteration focuses on minimal-yet- transformational modifications. The rear portion of the duplex is heavily reworked to yield efficient circulation leading into the addition and view of the garden.

The addition is a simple charred timber volume perched atop a robust stucco base augmented by splays and billows framing the views of the garden, host to a medley of edibles, flowering under plantings, evergreen shrubs, deciduous trees, and the lush backdrop of neighbouring trees.

Connecting the duplex and the addition is a scalloped walnut staircase ascending three levels punctuated by a volumetric shift at the top of the stairwell with a view of surrounding greens.

Photography by Pier Carthew.

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Sonelo is an architecture and interior design studio based in Melbourne founded by Wilson Tang and Elodie Lim.

We create simple, thoughtful, and beautiful spaces that adds quality to your everyday life.

Working collaboratively with our clients, we explore design in its multi-layered realms of the project brief, site, form, functionality, materiality, connection with the landscape, and community. With quality over quantity in mind, we explore and fulfil the latent potential of each project.

Seminal to our sensibility are the celebration of culture, diversity and landscape in all our work. Sonelo strives for authenticity, integrity and timelessness.