Goods Residence

The Goods residence is a home extension that broadens the client's brief to take into account a masterplan for the entire site in order to create the sort of 'old world', environment and retreat they had dreamed of. The high attention to period detailing combined with a carefully considered resolution of the existing building plan results not just in more space but a better quality of living.

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In the design of period extensions sensitivity is as much a question of scale and proportion as it is of getting the details right. With this in mind, at certain points of the conceptual process this design became considered more as a completion of the existing building than an extension. This way of thinking and its effect on the finished building is most obviously observed in the front elevation where a new wing, located to the West of the building completes an overall symmetry that belies a number of more detailed asymmetries to be found in the proportions and window positioning. The elevations are a game of cat-and-mouse for the trained eye looking to find if and where the building has been extended.

The program was, from the outset, ambitious. On the ground floor an open kitchen and meals area was created overlapping diagonally with an expansive family room where in the previous design the process of cooking was disconnected from the living spaces. The North-East corner at this level was built-out with a walk-in-robe and ensuite for the master bedroom while to the West a sheltered study was created. On the first floor a fourth bedroom was added including its own ensuite and walk-in-robe.

A three car garage is sited at the rear of the property away from the house along with a home studio/office. In doing this a sense of separation is achieved between this area and the home which acts similarly to a decompression zone from the everyday concerns of work and urban life. In this way the house is unapologetically old-fashioned and escapist, a place of old world style with new world convenience.

The existing gardens are beautiful and it was a priority to 'reconnect', the previously introspective house with the abundance of established trees on the property. And so wherever possible the house was 'opened out', to these grounds by the strategic placement of additional doors and windows to frame views. This connection with the gardens was essential to achieve the feeling of repose and calm that the clients desired.

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