Union Street

Set amongst other large-scaled homes in Armadale, in Melbourne’s south-east, Union Street Residence retains its original heritage form and expands to the rear and side to inject added volume and amenity. While the mass of the addition sits neatly behind the original, extruded in silhouette as the form grows deeper into the site, a lighter glazed and timber-wrapped form sits as a counter to the side. As its own statement and reflection of time, the addition sits as its own entity, not replicating the original stylings and instead capturing a contemporary spirit. As a family home, key to the addition was the creation of an open flexibility. Allowing a free-flowing movement internally, both between the old and new and between inside and out, NTF Architecture extends the crafted nature of the original into the addition.