Mackie

An alteration and addition to a 1980’s brick veneer farm house in the Victorian Goldfields for a pair of sisters moving from the city, wanting to imbue the house with greater spatial differentiation, amenity, and connection to the surrounding bush and farm.

The works are contained primarily within the existing envelope as a rearrangement of rooms to allow more vast and varied living spaces, an additional bedroom and greater separation between private quarters. The only additions are a new kitchen and bathrooms formed as verandah infill and clad in corrugated Zincalume. Existing opening locations are respected and treated with plywood reveals and new anodised aluminium glazing suites. A single new opening is made to the north, allowing greater connection to the primary views down the hill. Fabric awnings are added to selected bays of the facade, providing solar control and a sense of containment of the house’s primary space – the verandah.