![Glebe Red / Benn & Penna Architecture - Stairs, Windows, Brick, Facade, Handrail](https://images.adsttc.com/media/images/5cde/3e7f/284d/d1e8/1900/00c9/newsletter/12.jpg?1558068844)
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Architects: Benn & Penna Architecture
- Area: 190 m²
- Year: 2017
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Photographs:Tom Ferguson
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Manufacturers: Louis Poulsen, Vectorworks, Brodware, The Brick Pit, Tongue n Groove
![Glebe Red / Benn & Penna Architecture - Windows, Stairs, Door, Facade, Column, Garden, Handrail, Courtyard](https://images.adsttc.com/media/images/5cde/3cff/284d/d16d/3b00/0474/medium_jpg/07.jpg?1558068460)
Text description provided by the architects. Glebe Red is a major alterations and additions to a large Victorian terrace house in inner city Sydney. It includes new living spaces, kitchen, courtyard and garden studio. The brief asked to turn a large old terrace house into a place for family life that would provide for both current and future generations.
![Glebe Red / Benn & Penna Architecture - Wood, Bedroom](https://images.adsttc.com/media/images/5cde/3aa7/284d/d1e8/1900/00bd/newsletter/05.jpg?1558067869)
The project strategically transforms a previously dilapidated house into a landscaped body of space for the family. The courtyard is centripetal to the project, a combination of carefully selected elements that deliberates a place of gathering. An amphitheatre, a pond, a planter box and a platform, are rustled together to provide for an evolving variety of family activities. This landscape moulds the internal spaces either side, making inside and outside inseparable. A micro courtyard is carved out of the main house, filtering an iridescent light into the kitchen and living room.
![Glebe Red / Benn & Penna Architecture - Windows, Chair](https://images.adsttc.com/media/images/5cde/3a56/284d/d1e8/1900/00bc/newsletter/04.jpg?1558067787)
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![Glebe Red / Benn & Penna Architecture - Windows, Table](https://images.adsttc.com/media/images/5cde/3b04/284d/d1e8/1900/00bf/newsletter/06.jpg?1558067961)
The courtyard facades are augmented reflections of one another, like playful mimes. Uluru red brickwork gives the house and studio a landscape-like feel, whilst gently arcing ceilings demarcate internal spaces without the need for physical walls. Traditional formalities of the Victorian home are stripped bare into a series of continuously meandering spaces, while the new addition reveals the delicacy and ornamental qualities of the existing home.
![Glebe Red / Benn & Penna Architecture - Sink, Windows, Countertop](https://images.adsttc.com/media/images/5cde/3f6d/284d/d1ca/ae00/0001/newsletter/extra2.jpg?1558069083)
Private bedroom spaces are nestled upstairs, elevated away from the living rooms. Their entrance is denoted with a sky-lit existing stairwell. The rear studio accommodates for intergenerational living that was a strong aspect of the project brief, providing the foundations for ongoing family life. The dwelling’s scale and geometry contributes to the growing pattern of rear-lane dwellings in Boyce Lane, framing a new intimate public domain that will enrich our city over time.
![Glebe Red / Benn & Penna Architecture - Windows, Door, Sofa, Brick, Chair, Facade, Arch, Patio, Courtyard](https://images.adsttc.com/media/images/5cde/3da5/284d/d16d/3b00/0478/newsletter/11.jpg?1558068632)