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Architects: Benn + Penna Architecture
- Area: 180 m²
- Year: 2019
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Photographs:Tom Ferguson
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Manufacturers: Vectorworks, Bisanna Tiles, Brodware, Tongue n Groove
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Lead Architect: Andrew Benn
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Text description provided by the architects. Roseville Pavilions is an alterations and additions to a freestanding house in Sydney’s north. The project is a renovation to the existing house, with additional garden room and updated landscaping. The project site slopes down from the entry level to the garden by a whole floor. The brief called for a more seamless connection between the entry level - which contains main living, kitchen and dining spaces – to the low level rear garden.
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The project introduces an open and airy concrete framed pavilion that opens up a connection between the living spaces and garden space. The structure is deliberately expressed allowing for free movement through the pavilion and enabling light to enter the connecting stairwell.
![Roseville Pavilions House / Benn + Penna Architecture - Interior Photography, Table, Lighting](https://images.adsttc.com/media/images/5d32/4bae/284d/d109/5600/00a2/medium_jpg/B_P_Shirley_Rd_DSCF1760.jpg?1563577134)
Concrete is used for the expressed structural frame and is selected for its robust and monolithic qualities, whilst painted timber batten infill elements provides a contrasting lightness that is penetrable by light, air and the garden. The ruins-like quality of this garden room foregrounds the presence of the garden and frames the space as one for contemplation.
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Roseville pavilions is placed at the interstitial space between house and garden, thus forging an inseparable connection between inside and outside that would not have existed without.
![Roseville Pavilions House / Benn + Penna Architecture - Exterior Photography, Windows, Facade](https://images.adsttc.com/media/images/5d32/5807/284d/d131/4700/002f/newsletter/B_P_Shirley_Rd_DSCF1852.jpg?1563580290)