Preston House 01 / Healy Ryan Architects

The brief for the project was quite typical for a residential block in inner Melbourne. A heritage-listed Californian Bungalow, showing its age, required some general updates as well as some additional space to suit the needs of the owners, a young, growing family. We and the client were keen to pay respect to the history of the original building. Aside from the obvious economic and environmental benefits of recycling the demolished bricks from the original lean-to, we felt there would also be nice potential from a heritage perspective; to instill some of the characters of the old into the new.