This Playful Melbourne Home Embraces Its Split Personality

Heritage in the front, modern in the back—this renovation by FMD Architects is a family home with character.

Oct 29, 2020 - 02:17
This Playful Melbourne Home Embraces Its Split Personality

Heritage in the front, modern in the back—this renovation by FMD Architects is a family home with character.

The canopies are made out of black steel, while the windows have oiled, black timber frames.

From the front, this Melbourne heritage home just looks like a simple, suburban Australian cottage with a standard gable roof. But the back? Well, the back tells a whole different story.

Though the color of the original side of the home is heritage-appropriate, its all-over application is a touch unusual for the area.

The modernist extension is a brutalism-inspired beauty, featuring a charred-wood-and-glass volume split neatly into two halves. It’s two-faced architecture, if you will—but together, the two sides tell one beautiful design story.

The canopies are made out of black steel, while the windows have oiled, black timber frames.
Though they share a roof, the heritage half is clearly marked by its saturated red, horizontal ship-board exterior. At the back, the spotted gum panelling runs vertical and is charred a carbon black.

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