This inner city house is built within the shell of an old timber yard in the back streets of Surry Hills in Sydney. The house is built within the walls and stacked to the south, enabling a ground level courtyard to emerge. The courtyard is embraced, overlooked, intersected, screened and infused by the fabric of the building. While the interior is a play of spatial relationships and materials, the exterior is a folded plane which wraps the surfaces through successive skins. The materiality of texture and folded surface brings a new dimension to the street through the simplicity of volume.

Awards:
RAIA Robin Boyd Award for Housing 1999

Published:
'Industrial Action', Sydney Morning Herald 2003
'Warehouse Metamorphosis' Inner City Living - New Australia Style 2 2003
Details in Architecture 3 2001
CASABELLA 689 2001
International Architecture Yearbook No.7 2001
Private Sydney 2000
Architecture Review Australia (Winter) 1999