The Haines House is located in the center of the city Sydney suburb of Newtown, an area showing evidence of redevelopment in the general update of the surrounding urban fabric. The immediate context is composed predominantly single storey, attached and semi-detached residences intermittent two-story homes and three to four blocks of flats.
The proposal involved the complete renovation of an existing single-family semivivienda (storey). In addition to a volume of open-plan over the existing original back, and thereby improve the physical and visual relationship with the new backyard, while it improves the access of sunlight, natural ventilation and views landscape and sky.
The generation of the design involves two strategies:
1. A clear response carried out in three acts involved, extrapolation of the line of the slope of the back cover of the housing immediately adjacent to generate the shape of the roof, followed by the extension of an existing roof level, to east along the edge where a long “wall work” adapts to a kitchen, storage and various configurations of carpentry, which extend out of room for a second bathroom.
2. The maintenance of the house and the original facade, the bathroom located in the center and the cellular front design with 3 rooms, to open the release housed in a room, followed by a scale change and change in the level through a secret passage to the rear, with a new dining kitchen, and this is a second space habitable.
The low ceiling height provides a reference point and describes the alignment of all elements wrapped around the rear interior volume, adjusting the height of the rear steel doors, like sliding doors. The wall covering is made of wood, in the laundry room are lined with wooden planks.
Glazing finely arranged, connecting the tops of the walls of the bathroom, with a single roof plane, is contained in the spaces around the same time the light goes in three directions. Arrangements made of steel plates and banks highlighted in fixed windows and especially the east wall, under the working deck, reducing high ceilings and low, wrap the south facing rear, while a series of timber framed doors sliding. The living spaces are spacious and have a covered terrace that connects directly to private and enclosed garden.
