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An architect recently described the completion of his first home to me. He marvelled that he could walk around it... see it in the world... watch the colours change over time... experience with five senses and in three dimensions something which had lived quite convincingly in two... a physical realisation of the dream that had beckoned during university studies, employment. and the kitchens and bathrooms that followed. In 1993, at a similar professional juncture, Ian Moore paid an architectural debt. After his kitchen and bathroom apprenticeship, apartment fit-out indenture, and other interior projects, he built his firs, freestanding project in Australia. Following the years of preparation, Moore approached the extension of a Californian Bungalow on a steep street in Woollahra as a deliberate homage to his inspirations.
At the commencement of the project, the existing house was an unspectacular bungalow, with a South facing 'sometime- in-the-60s' glazed veranda to the rear. The owners avoided the internalised spaces of the original house, and spent most of their time in the garden and 'sunroom'. Their brief was for a 'family room', bedroom and ensuite. The site made more demands.
The street is extremely steep, but cutting and filling has created terraces for every property so that each house has a full storey above the next, allowing views to the northeast towards parkland. The site for the Maley House has a 3m high sandstone cliff slicing a diagonal curve across the open space to the rear. In order to maintain the useable area of the back garden, the extension was built over the cliff on the overgrown section of the site at its base, by means of a steel frame. While minimising ground works expenses, adopting the steel frame as the basis of the design allowed Moore to demonstrate his affinity for the material, and to test the lessons he had learnt from 'The Moderns'.
The addition comprises a living/dining room, a bedroom with ensuite and dressing room, and a 'link space' providing sun access and ventilation to the bedroom, forming a small side courtyard around an existing tree. A triangular laundry built under the bedroom follows the line of the sandstone cliff on the site. In essence the new work is an expansion on the earlier 'sunroom'.
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