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Architects: FMD Architects
- Area: 193 m²
- Year: 2017
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Manufacturers: James Hardie Australia, Academy Tiles, James Hardie, LOCKER GROUP, MODWOOD, Signorino, Supertuft
Text description provided by the architects. The very familiar task of renovating and extending an aging, unavailing nineteenth-century Victorian terrace in inner-Melbourne quickly developed itself into a larger and more concerning conversation about how our constantly changing society lives and responds to the aging and preservation of architecture of the past. Our response was inspired and directed by the client’s determined assertion that she was merely the current caretaker of this ‘old lady’; of this building that had preceded and would surely succeed her into the future. Beauty, aging, utility, and continuity were explored through the analogy of the existing house as an ‘old lady’ with a bustle dress.
