BUILDER
JBC Constructions
STRUCTURAL ENGINEER
SDA Structures
LANDSCAPE DESIGN
Mariko Design
HYDRAULIC ENGINEER
ITM Design
JOINER
Pullicino + Son
PHOTOGRAPHER
Douglas Frost
V-House
2016
An early decision to retain, rather than demolish, the existing dwelling informed the V-House design. A new first floor level is defined by a floating roof that spawns from the existing tiled roof ridge line, inverting the pitch to the sky.
This new roof hovers over the bedrooms such that the inhabitant always understands the position of the existing roof plane from the interior. The same roof is shaped at the rear by the tapering nature of the site and the gesture of preserving the rear neighbour’s harbour view. At this point the roof becomes a single storey lid over the primary external living zone.
A new garage at the site’s low point integrates a covered access to the dwelling that is derived by the shape of the circulation in section and the existing dwelling’s stone plinth.
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