Residential

Glebe Terrace

The brief was to extend a small Glebe workers cottage with a single story to the street and small single story rear addition, to provide for a new family with two young children.

At 4m wide, the project involved careful, detailed planning of a tight space to maximise access to natural light and outlook while adding new bedrooms and bathrooms in a heritage conservation area of Sydney. With no rear lane access other than that provided by a small historical ‘services-lane’ once used for manual sewerage collection, our clients were keen to maximise the sense of space in a desirable inner city location with a family history. The existing rear courtyard was maintained and an upper story roof garden provided for the upper living room.

This western facade was also provided a series of sun shading devices including cement-board fins and hoods, in addition to external blinds and sliding insect screens over a bank of sliding windows. Internally, a simple palette of concrete, timber, exposed brick and white sought to create a warm but bright interior despite a difficult western-aspect with shared party walls to north and south of the existing cottage.

On a tight site the project works had to create a sense of living outdoors through practical but large openings maximising outlook to local vegetation and access to views of the Anzac Bridge beyond

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