Design Mag Vol 3

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Texture, detail and perspective key to the

transformation of an inner-city cottage

Think classic Queenslander and you probably visualise an

imposing high-set, timber-clad home with broad stairs reaching

to a shaded front verandah. However this traditional housing

style has been expressed in many forms, from grand country

homes to modest workers cottages.

This narrow 1890’s cottage in inner-Brisbane nestles into the

ground on its long eastern boundary and then exposes itself as a

propped Queenslander to the west.The long, narrow site (about

10 by 50 metres, north facing to the front) gave the opportunity

to double the floor area by creating an extension leading

seamlessly to hard landscaping that weaves to the back

boundary. It is terminated with a pool protected by a ha-ha, a

recessed landscape design element usually employed on grand

estates to separate grazing stock from formal gardens without

obstructing the view!

This is home to Jayson and Melissa Blight and their children Mia

and Jenson.The designing couple – Jayson is a director of Cox

Rayner Architects and Melissa runs interior design practice,

Twofold Studio – has created an extension that redefines the

narrow inner-city lot while respecting the cottage’s historic fabric.

Exploring

Space

This extension to an 1890s

inner-Brisbane cottage is a

celebration of the bricklayer’s

art. Note the quarter-bonded

flooring, a pattern repeated

throughout the house.

HORBURY HUNT

Residential Award

Winner

Project:

Aperture House

Location:

Highgate Hill QLD

Function:

Extension to family home

Owners:

Jayson and Melissa Blight

Architect:

Cox Rayner Architects in collaboration with Twofold Studio

Structural engineer:

Westera Partners

Builder:

Frame Projects

Bricklayer:

Elvis & Rose

Featured products:

Bowral Bricks Simmental Silver 50mm dry-pressed

clay bricks and Austral Bricks reclaimed commons clay bricks

Photography:

Christopher Frederick Jones