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Archer Office acknowledges the Gadigal people of the Eora Nation as the traditional owners of the land on which we live and work. We pay respects to their elders, past, present and emerging.
Projects / Manly House
Manly House:
Creating Space by Subtraction
A stacked duplex is converted into a single residence within the existing two-storey double-brick envelope. A series of careful cuts to the walls, floor and roof create a continuous flow of spaces from the entry and garden, up a stairwell filled with light from a large skylight above to the living areas on the upper floor, which look out over the landscape. Each of the seven new openings in the building are treated differently.
Project Story
An expansive clear opening to the rear garden is created by replacing the existing bi-folding timber framing with a single piece of glass that slides out of view on an external steel track. A finely crafted steel staircase winds up through a spacious opening in the floor. A skylight over this void spills light throughout the house.
Over the kitchen bench a large fixed glass window brings the nearby trees into the room, while a small square winding casement window over the stove draws fresh air. Finally, the original sunroom has been fitted with a series of mechanical steel pivot windows that dramatically open the corner of the room to the valley of Manly, Sydney Harbour and the Pacific Ocean.
Completed as Archer Breakspear by Tomek Archer and Toby Breakspear.
Project Details
Location:
Manly, Sydney
Year:
2013
Status:
Completed
Client:
Private
Programme:
Single Residential
Size:
200m2 (GFA)
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