Original release 12 avril 2023
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Living Large in A Narrow Home Made of Brick and Concrete (House Tour)

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Located in Brunswick, Victoria, Brunswick House by Placement is a showcase of how a narrow home can contain a lot of graceful design aspects within its walls. Sitting on a small block, the house offers a north-to-south-facing layout, with neighbours flanking on either side. Tasked to rectify a defunct terrace typology that is common to the area, the architect has employed a refined sense of detail from entrance to the back courtyard. To retain certain aspects of the original home, Placement has chosen to maintain the main bedroom with its original fireplace. While the house tour continues on, small design elements help to reignite the home’s historical character through a modern lens.

Placement has a sense of release and decompression to unveil the house by designing a double-height ceiling that leads into the dining area. When responding to the home’s narrow site, the architect had to find a way to welcome light into the centre of the building. This crucial design element was answered by the use of a central courtyard, which has been finished with large glass windows to allow for light to flood the living spaces. Moving from the dining area, two hallways are revealed, one which accesses the bathroom and another that works as a galley kitchen, and at the end of both hallways sits the living room and rear garden.

An additional mezzanine level is built above the hallways, designed to be used as a multipurpose room, second bedroom or office space. However, the space ultimately helps to zone out the separate dining and living areas. Employing bricks as the main material element within the narrow home, they are laid in a stack bond to accentuate the verticality in the space. Selecting the Nubrik artisan by Brickworks for its tactility and textural quality, the architect has used brick to help define the interior detailing and works alongside the timber joinery. In doing so, the timber is employed to do the heavy lifting of the interior spaces as the joinery creates a seamless transition between living, dining and the mezzanine level by creating overlapping lines. Additionally, the overlapping lines of joinery help to create a warmth and feeling of being nestled within a singular volume.

From the living room, the backyard opens up to a garden that has been envisioned as a courtyard, sandwiched between a rear pavilion and living room façade. Additionally, the insertion of a semi-underground water tank has been cleverly hidden by dense planting, which will take over the fences to become a nook of greenery. Due to living in the house for almost a decade, the client was already settled into the land and wasn’t looking for anything pretentious. Being sure to steer away from artificial finishes, Placement has instead used natural materials that will stand the test of time and create a home that answered the clients needs. By combining bricks, concrete, timber and warm paint finishes, the architect has created a narrow home that is pleasing and timeless.

00:00 - Introduction to the Narrow home
00:33 - Quietly Clever and Robust
00:50 - Working with a Narrow Block
01:07 - The Bricks and the Materials
02:07 - A Walkthrough of the Home
03:41 - Responding to the Narrow Nature of the Home
04:08 - Creating Seamless Transitions
04:32 - Proud Moments
04:51 - Favourite Spots

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Photography by Tom Ross.
Architecture and Interior Design by Placement.
Bricks by Brickworks.
Filmed and Edited by The Local Project.
Production by The Local Project.

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Living Large in A Narrow Home Made of Brick and Concrete (House Tour)

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