Plazibat Architects

Mountford Road House

Mountford Road House
© Brock Beazley

MOUNTFORD ROAD HOUSE

Shane Marsh Architects

LEAD ARCHITECT
Shane Marsh

STRUCTURAL ENGINEER
Ese Design

PHOTOGRAPHS
Brock Beazley

AREA
500 m²

YEAR
2022

LOCATION
New Farm, Australia

CATEGORY
Houses, Restoration

Text description provided by architect.

A traditional Queenslander Typology restricted the nature of a contemporary family home.

We wanted to minimize the impact of any extension on the grandeur of the original house.

Mountford Road House
© Brock Beazley
Mountford Road House
© Brock Beazley
Mountford Road House
© Brock Beazley

The traditional undercroft of a home in the sub-tropical environment of the southeast has traditionally been the coolest part of the home.

Families would gather under these houses in the heat of the day. At the same time, kids would run between the undercroft and the garden.

The undercroft of traditional Queenslanders has a child-like memory for people who grew up in these typical homes.

Mountford Road House
© Brock Beazley
Mountford Road House
© Brock Beazley
Mountford Road House
© Brock Beazley

We wanted to give the same feeling of undercroft and coolness to the built form of the home.

So we injected a new main living space that remains cool in the summer and combined this with large door openings to transition to the secluded gardens of the home.

We opted for a darker ceiling to give that sense of undercroft balanced with strong, heavy, light materials like concrete and marble the lighten the space.

Mountford Road House
© Brock Beazley


Mountford Road House
© Brock Beazley
Mountford Road House
© Brock Beazley
Mountford Road House
© Brock Beazley
Mountford Road House
© Brock Beazley
Mountford Road House
© Brock Beazley
Mountford Road House
© Brock Beazley
Mountford Road House
© Brock Beazley
Mountford Road House
© Brock Beazley
Mountford Road House
© Brock Beazley
Mountford Road House
© Brock Beazley
Mountford Road House
© Brock Beazley
Mountford Road House
© Brock Beazley
Mountford Road House
© Brock Beazley
Mountford Road House
© Brock Beazley


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Mountford Road House
Plan - Ground Floor
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Plan - 1st Floor

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