10 Fold House / Timmins+Whyte Architects

The original single storey Edwardian cottage was dark and lacked connection to the outside.  We used 10 folds in the roof to draw in light along the skinny, long house and site.  The folds minimise bulk to the eastern neighbour and rise up to the large two-storey contemporary western neighbour. The house humbly addresses the street with a contemporary tweak to the Edwardian cottage and the two storey part of the house sits further back from the street hiding the bedroom volume behind it.