SAOIR Home / refresh*design
- Space :
230 m²
12 months :
2022
Producers : ASA Tiles, Australian Timber Ceilings, Dowell Home windows, Finlaysons, Godfrey Hirst, Hekahood, J.Hardie, Johnson Tiles, Laminex, Lysaght, Velux, YDL Stone
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Textual content description offered by the architects. Saoir is a luxurious residence fashioned round an present employees’ cottage in a vibrant inner-city suburb of Brisbane. Positioned on a small 256 m2 inner-city lot with overlooking neighbors and restricted entry to daylight the undertaking maximizes its connection to the outside while sustaining privateness and entry to mild, air and breezes – making a residence completely fitted to the Brisbane subtropical local weather.
The undertaking is cut up into three distinct volumes, every linked and grounded by a concrete datum that types a base for the plunge pool and have stair. The centrally positioned and lined courtyard hyperlinks the unique cottage to the brand new extension, and thru its beneficiant double-height house, permits vistas by the home, producing a way of lightness and spaciousness. The extension, taking formal qualities from the unique cottage, reads as a separate quantity that addresses the rear road.
Up to date additions are seen as an extension and evolution of the unique, specializing in craft to form the shape and really feel of the house. A muted tonality is used all through, binding the areas and reinforcing a way of movement including heat by timber and joinery alongside the way in which.
Saoir is an instance of compact inner-city luxurious residing, its restrained materials palette, use of sentimental filtered mild, and minimalist detailing enable a seamless union between previous and new, making a climatically responsive, lovely, and finally – very habitable household residence in a small house inside the metropolis.
In its familiarity and heat, SAOIR — the Gaelic Scottish phrase for carpenter turns into an expanded modern residence, related and overtly participating with its context, local weather, and historical past.
