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main living areas, on the ground floor, are arranged as a sequence of linked open-plan spaces. The front door opens directly onto a large lobby with an atrium/staircase at one end, designed to pull light from an overhead skylight into the basement, and a kitchen at the other. The ground floor living room, to the rear of the property, has a glass floor on one side and provides access to a second stairway down to a small sunken courtyard. The lobby staircase ascends to an upper level mezzanine, nestled below a trussed roof that extends out towards the rear of the property. The basement level houses two double bedrooms and a large master suite with an en-suite bathroom, located under the arched pavement vaults.
Urban rustic
The crisp, minimal aesthetic and limited palette of materials, including timber, brick and concrete, is intended to create a calm, contemplative environment. The design might seem at odds with the
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sensibilities of the client, who runs a country manor hotel business and was keen for a property with a ‘rustic’ environment. However, the challenging parameters of the inner city context made that ideal impossible – for example there could be no views out through windows – but a compromise was reached with the concept of an “urban barn”. The idea was to create two large perpendicular volumes, with gallery spaces, covered by a roof structure of deep timber trusses. “We thought the owners would never go for the idea, but from a very early stage they bought into it and were genuinely intrigued about what was possible,” says Shannon. “After a few meetings with the client we realised there was going to be a lot of freedom on this project and when a client wants what you are doing, the collab- oration suddenly becomes very interesting.” The chunky laminated oak trusses are a key rural reference point. The timbers are deep enough to shield oblique views from
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The crisp, minimal aesthetic and limited palette of materials, including timber, brick and concrete, is intended to create a calm, contemplative environment
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