Architect - M.J.Suttie Architects

Interior Designer - Phoebe Nicol

Landscape Designer - Nicholas Hosking Studio

Builder - Solid Property Group

Project Photography - Kieran Hookway

Architect - M.J.Suttie Architects

Interior Designer - Phoebe Nicol

Landscape Designer - Nicholas Hosking Studio

Builder - Solid Property Group

Project Photography Interiors - David Wheeler

M.J.Suttie Architects - Interior Design, Landscape Design and Architecture.

Ongoing Documentation/Photography - Kieran Hookway/Winston Grant-Preece

This house is situated on the outskirts of Melbourne, at the edge of the Bunyip national park. The house maintains a commanding view of the surrounding countryside with framed views through out the house.

The design for this country house addresses the opportunities and challenges of the site in a highly inventive and artistic manner, paying careful attention to principles of passive heating and cooling and healthy home design.

To protect the house from the prevailing winds and to maximise northern light into the building, the house is designed with two north facing wings, connected by an entrance hall.

The main family living and dining room is passively called by cross ventilation from the pergola covered terrace to the north and the cool shaded central courtyard. Assisted by evaporative cooling from the reflecting pond and the chimney stack affect aided by a vented five meter high ceiling space with clerestory window. The radiant under floor hydronic heating, powered by heat pumps result in high energy performance without compromising comfort or beauty.

Family Residence - Royalla NSW

96 Dundonald Rd, London, United Kingdom

Alterations and Additions

Project Year: 2015

Country: United Kingdom

Photos: Hawes & Co of Wimbledon.

This family residence in Wimbledon has under gone a series of renovations and additions to its original Victorian town house typology. These included a loft conversion, a rear extension, containing a new dinning area, kitchen and formal outdoor living space. As well as a side extension to the property, adding a bedroom with en suite on the ground floor, master bedroom on the first and additional bedrooms on the second. Additional work has been carried out on the garden, formalizing it and bringing it to it’s full potential.

The aesthetic nature of the additions sought to harmonize with the existing dwelling whilst providing ample new space of generous and humane proportions. The additions to the garden and to the exterior of the house, using naturally wearing materials, help to add to the overall rustic character.