Contemporary Home Refurbishment Project – Haines House by Christopher Polly Architect

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Located in the inner city Sydney suburb of Newtown, Christopher Polly Architect has completed the building refurbishment of a single story house. The addition was an open plan volume beyond the original rear existing roof plane, to improve the physical and visual relationships to the new rear garden.

The height of the low roof served to establish a datum that scribed the alignment of all elements wrapped around the interior of the rear volume, setting the heights of the rear steel door head and sliding doors, timber board wall linings, timber board lined laundry units and new wall heights of the retained bathroom.

Fixed highlight glazing finely connects these newly established bathroom wall heights with the singular ceiling plane, enclosing it from surrounding spaces while borrowing light from three directions. An arrangement of fine steel plate supports and banks of highlight louvred and fixed windows march along and above the entire eastern low roofed working wall, bridging the high and low roofs and wrapping to the rear southern orientation.

Location: Newtown, Sydney, Australia
Project Team: Christopher Polly
Structural Engineer: Simpson Design Associates
Builder: Paul King Pty Ltd
Project Area: 115 sqm
Landscaped Area: 58 sqm
Photography: Brett Boardman

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