To guage solely by its Marrickville road frontage, Silver Again is a typical terrace home. Its metallic fence and ornamentation stand out towards the backdrop of its crisp white facade, and its first-storey verandah includes a detailed balustrade that, aside from its color, matches that of its next-door neighbour.
However transferring into the home, a unique story unfolds: an up to date entry sequence attracts consideration to a spiral stair, which acts as a visible nexus connecting the unique terrace home with a metal-clad two-storey addition.
Ascending these open, minimalist white steps results in a pair of first-storey bedrooms.
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Katherine Lu
This strategy to increasing the house, which was renovated in response to the wants of its younger household, is the work of GSBN Studio and lead architect Henry Goodwin. Henry and his staff describe “a deal with materiality” that directed them towards aluminium, wooden and chrome steel. The results of this focus is clear in boxwood joinery, concrete flooring, sisal carpet and eponymous silver cladding, all of that are deployed all through the house to determine its distinct visible language.
Guided by a “practical strategy to design”, Henry’s staff formed a transparent path from the entry by way of to the brand new constructing. A windowed courtyard borders one facet of this connection between volumes; a shower with a hairpin-like curved wall defines the opposite. The trail ends within the mixed kitchen and eating, which is located on the bottom ground of the addition and opens to the outside, the place greenery sprouts between pavers and chairs invite leisure (and maybe neighbourly chats with laneway passers-by).
Silver Again’s corrugated metallic facade defines it from the laneway.
Whereas there’s no denying that Silver Again’s corrugated metallic facade defines it from the laneway, very a lot incomes its title, the ensuing quantity isn’t any seamless block. A second-storey cutaway affords house for greenery and a view of the timber window body past; beside it, a playful pop-out provides curiosity whether or not considered from inside or with out. Additional including form and depth is a path of pavers alongside the home, letting occupants wander from the entrance backyard by way of to the again with out going indoors – or duck inside by way of a door close to the spiral stair. Ascending these open, minimalist white steps results in a pair of first-storey bedrooms; a built-in tub sits within the new quantity, as does the main bedroom. Timber frames present heat, deep notes within the largely desaturated palette.
This distinction is considered one of many in Silver Again, whose delightfully completely different design will certainly evolve together with its younger household for years to return.
