Matt had one dream for his family's little heritage terrace in Summer Hill: a home where his wife and two kids could swim, gather, and live close to water every day.
The site was tiny.
The footprint wouldn't allow to create what Matt and his family wanted.
When we started, we asked not where can the pool fit? but what if the house and the pool shared the same ground? The site was too small to hold both side by side. So we stacked them, the pool beneath the new rear extension, the living spaces suspended above the water.
The terrace holds a two-storey addition, three bedrooms, two bathrooms. At the front, a living room that catches beautiful natural light through a large roof opening, despite facing south.
At the rear, a north-facing kitchen, dining and living space elevated above the pool where dinner can be underway upstairs while the kids swim below.
The pool is the centre of the home.
A small heritage terrace, reshaped around Matt's family, around natural light, water and Passivhaus standards.
