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Located in Fitzroy North, a vibrant inner-city suburb of Melbourne, this recently renovated family house occupies two late-19th century Victorian terrace houses which have been thoughtfully stitched together into a spatially cohesive yet richly layered environment that celebrates the building’s architectural heritage. Working with the property’s owners, a couple with two young children, local architects Splinter Society have stripped back decades-worth of ad-hoc interventions to bring to light the original building fabric. Marrying the building’s warehouse feel with contemporary minimalism and sleek industrial references, the result is an untraditional family home that hovers between polished sophistication and raw materiality.
Described by the architects as “a process of reduction”, the renovation centred on revealing the building’s masonry construction as well as retaining and restoring as many of the original features as possible, including the arched doorways, fireplaces and the original exposed timber ceilings.The team’s “archaeological” approach is encapsulated in the treatment of the three-storey masonry wall that once separated the two terrace houses. Rather than being demolished to spatially merge the two houses, it has been painstakingly preserved — its imperfections and scars on full display as a record of the building’s history – to now function as a circulation axis with a cantilevered steel and fluted glass staircase stretching across it. The wall’s full height can be appreciated from the entrance vestibule, the result of the renovation’s most drastic intervention that involved removing parts of the two upper floors to create a 9-metre-high atrium-like space. By setting back the entry from the original façade and introducing a new three-storey glass façade, the space received plenty of natural light to now also off |
