Hovell Street Residence

 The clients required a statement home melding their bold personalities with the context’s single-storey heritage character and against the redgum forest backdrop.

The result is a split-level house with the garage and laundry on the lowest part of the site subject to flooding, an entry at street level, and a living level above the garage and laundry opening onto a balcony and cantilevered pool overlooking the forest. 

The flood overlay gave the client the added bonus of raising the view from the house above the levee bank to make the most of the stunning forest outlook.