SRG House

Private Client / Studio Johnston Architecture - Residential - Constructed

The brief for the SRG House was to turn a two-bedroom 1972 semi into a four-bedroom sustainable home catering for multi-generational living. The client wanted to open the building up to its cool central court-garden and add a plunge pool in the small harbour-facing garden. They needed two additional bedrooms within the envelope of the main house for young children and also sought to redevelop a single-level gauge that was added in the 1980s to incorporate completely independent in-law accommodation that was both separate to the main house but linked.

The semi is part of a heritage-listed pair, and a crucial component of the brief was restoring as much original building as possible, and adapting the original material language, while making major improvements to the function and flow of interiors and dramatically improving the home’s environmental performance.

The project considers its environmental impact deeply in terms of construction process, material selection, energy/resource efficient operation.

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