We are honoured to be awarded the Edith Emery Award for Pedder Street House at the 2024 Tasmanian Architecture Awards for Pedder Street House.
Jury citation:
“Pedder Street House comprises the significant transformation of a traditional bungalow on the high side of a North Hobart residential street.
The spatially modest additions extend in an origami-like shaping of the envelope, framing external garden areas and accommodating interior spaces of light and prospect. The resultant architectural richness belies the limited budget and conceptually simple extrusion of the existing roof form.
The plan evolves from an offset entry foyer in the existing house. Movement through the short, existing central corridor reveals a sequence of spaces that start to shift in level in response to the opportunities that the site and envelope present.
A generous point of arrival between the dining room, under the existing roof, and the new kitchen creates an informal place of gathering and redirection. With stepped edges, pausing or sitting here is natural yet unexpected.
The folding of floor levels and volume continues through the kitchen to the living space that expands vertically to the full height to the new roof line. Nestled into this section, a master bedroom suite is presented as a pale-toned and more dimly lit refuge from the daily life that operates below.
Pedder Street expertly connects interior spaces to a multileveled garden and overlaps and intersects internal spaces with a level of spatial confidence that is exemplary.”
Bence Mulcahy team: Shamus Mulcahy, Sophie Bence, Bek Verrier, and Michael Renshaw.
Built by Thylacine Constructions Pty
Aldanmark Consulting Engineers, Pudding Lane Building Surveyors
Photos by Adam Gibson Photography
