Autumn House explores Studio Brights’ philosophy of contributing to the built fabric of its streetscape. Reconciling Victorian architecture and a 1980s renovation by architect Mick Jörgensen, a new extension has been realised which fuses the home with its garden through connection and palette.
A mature elm tree in the backyard of this inner-urban terrace in Melbourne’s Carlton North is the cornerstone of the home’s design language. Studio Bright have stitched a new layer into and around existing conditions in a way that borrows from, merges with and modernises them. By sympathetically balancing the home’s Victorian architecture, the Mick Jörgenson addition and a new extension, Studio Bright have bestowed a relevance entirely befitting the young family who now lives there.
Today, the original terrace, which architect Mick Jörgenson had extensively reconfigured, has been restored to optimise both form and function. The lack of northern light has defined a perfect sleep-inducing wing for children’s bedrooms while the much-loved raw timber-lined ceiling, red brick floor and outlook to the majestic elm have coaxed a living space filled with a warm, nostalgic sensibility.
The new extension aligns with the heritage volume’s night-time spaces and informal living zone. It forms a series of curving and angled moves at ground level, which hold the new north-facing living, kitchen and dining spaces. Wrapping the southernmost edge of the site and negotiating the elm and the existing building, this new volume harmoniously supports an activity space at the front of the site.
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Amid an autumnal palette a home has been cultivated to ebb and flow with the seasons, reconciling them into a nuanced timelessness.
Clean interventions across architecture, interior and styling have cultivated an abiding calm with equality between built and natural environments. An autumnal lustre permeates each room through expanses of glazing, which frame a living backdrop dominated by the sky and foliage from the upper floors and the elm on the lower. A barely contained botanical plane by Eckersley Garden Architecture dovetails into the materiality of the home where terracotta tones, verdant greens, artisanal elements and timber find affinity with nature.
From the laneway, Autumn House presents a continuous solid brick perimeter wall that is consistent with adjoining conditions, further supporting Studio Bright’s overarching practice intent to create enduring and responsive spaces. This level of consideration has also informed meticulous attention to detail which subsequently has driven an architectural form that from the front gives no hint of new roof lines, appearing instead as a solid garden wall over which the elm towers as a constant sentinel.
All thresholds to the courtyards and outdoor spaces are intentionally porous and defined by operable glazed windows and doors. Above and defining the home’s exterior expression, a wedge-like mesh structure supports climbing pants and a slim garden to form an oasis within the urban milieu. Enclosed by this garden framework are the main bedroom and ensuite, which, activated further by a rooftop deck, filter natural light and mute the immediacy of neighbours to encapsulate a deep sense of shelter.
In coaxing a conversation between built and natural landscapes, Autumn House manifests a lifestyle that balances rigour and joy. Studio Bright have imparted an architectural language that weaves the numerous iterations of the home while establishing one that will continue to evolve as the building mallows and the garden continues to spill into and over it in an entirely enchanting way.
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Autumn House sympathetically balances a Victorian-era terrace house, a 1980’s renovation by architect Mick Jörgenson, and a new contribution by Studio Bright.
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