OREILLY-BUDD EXTENSION - Thornbury

This project, born out of a brief typical to projects of this nature, comprises a new living, kitchen, wetarea functions, and an upstairs bedroom joined to the rear of an existing detached worker’s cottage.

Entered from the side, the scheme presents itself as an arrangement of three distinct prismatic forms which are sculpted to suit the scale and functional requirements of the site. The larger of these forms – which is double storeyed and contains the kitchen and bedroom over, sits in the middle of the site to minimise townplanning issues concerning the effects of overshadowing and building bulk whilst the middle form containing the family/living areas sits lower and expresses its shape through a contoured ceiling. The third form operates as an ‘outdoor room’ relating specifically to the rear yard area to the north, and is made from sail-tailored garden shade mesh stretched over a timber and welded steel frame.

Photography – Shannon McGrath
Staughton Architects