LRY ARCHITECTS

A contemporary addition to a heritage home in the Balmain Conservation Area.

Emphatically blurring the lines between inside and out. The main room has a lightweight structure with huge cedar slide away doors to fully embrace the garden. The natural material palette chosen for the building fabric enhances the connection.

Returning to a childhood home our client was presented with a wonderful opportunity to reimagine life under the same roof.

Working in collaboration with interior designer Alice Flynn this existing dilapidated terrace has been transformed with a simple, practical extension and a classic pallette of materials.

In the design of a new house on a corner site in a leafy pocket of Mosman the boundary wall to the street has been set back to provide a landscape buffer between public and private spaces.

The planning has been conceived to respect the orientation of the site so that each of the major habitable rooms are able to enjoy sunlight for a significant part of the day. The plan allows for easy and direct circulation and provides spaces for communal living and separation as required.

The removal of the Garage from the rear will provide a much larger garden and there will be sufficient landscape area to allow for a swimming pool and deck/paving area within Councils planning constraints.

Here is a site with a spectacular view, part of the Seascape subdivision near Red Head. 

We were briefed by our clients Anne and Bob to take advantage of the views whilst considering future potential development, daylight and prevailing weather patterns. 

The building has been informed by the site and our anticipation of what may follow on neighbouring blocks. 

It is an unusual place in that you do feel enveloped by the coastal landscape whilst being cocooned within the house.

The topography of the site and a green and leafy outlook to the rear informed the planning of these units.

Each has street frontage, secure parking, lift access and a private outlook. Circulation space is minimised to provide for more generous planning of living and bedroom spaces.

Photography: Brett Boardman

Runner up in Canada Bays Sustainability Award for Best New Development Involving Heritage.

Opening up a heritage cottage to the potential of light and space is an exciting prospect. Here at Moore Street we were able to provide full engagement with the garden and sunlight.

A combined living space opens up to the Garden via a deep covered terrace, which shelters the internal space from the elements and provides for all weather use.

An internal courtyard provides a punctuation between the old and the new and allows sunllight penetration deep into the building. 

A terraced house renovation in Birchgrove for much loved clients. We helped them to find the house initially and recognized its potential.

A small, dark and damp single storey workers cottage has been transformed over 3 new storeys to meet the needs of a growing family. 

At its core a sculptural timber staircase connects the three levels which open out progressively to the rear spaces -a private garden at the ground level, a terrace extension of the dining room at first floor level and a private screened balcony at the bedroom level.

Private district views help to expand the feeling of both space and privacy and the extensive use of well crafted timber throughout lends a warmth the house.

Here at Glassop Street we faced the challenge of providing a lovely Federation cottage with a new contemporary living space. The room was to engage the house with the rear garden and also maximise direct sunlight from its existing southerly orientation.

Full height glazing and a corner opening provide a seamless transition from house to garden. A clerestory window to 3 sides allows for direct sunlight penetration throughout the year and a 4 metre high ceiling amplifies the sense of space and connection with the Garden and daylight.

The owners have been bold and determined in their collaboration with the design and selection of materials. Some well crafted joinery and playfull colours have given an emphatic lift to the extension which has dramatically changed the nature of this house.

This was our first home. We designed and built it which was an education in itself.

We faced the perennial problem of introducing sunlight and a sense of space into a dark and narrow terrace.

Only the front room of the original house remains wiith the new rooms built around an inner lightwell serving as vertical circulation and a rear, controllable glazed wall. A concrete slab with heating throughout the ground floor provides an ideal internal climate in summer and winter.

Photography: Brett Boardman

This is a screenshot of a 3D model created in house for a proposed rear addition to an inner city heritage house.

A change of level internally  creates a room with a significant connection to the garden. Housed above this a new bedroom and bathroom to meet the needs of a growing family.

The model is able to demonstrate not only the spatial qualities of the proposal but also its relationshhip to the passage of daylight throughout the year. 

A commision for an office refurbishment in a heritage listed building which involved fast track programming and complex approval process with Body Corporate, Council and PCA.

Exposing the roof slab structure and services has maximised the sense of space and light within the floorplate and allowed the smaller spaces within the floorplate to breathe.