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03 December 2009

Bistro Felix Small Bar and Restaurant

Project CC_0106
An existing tired high priced fish and chip restaurant developed into a Bistro and small bar restaurant circa 2006. Previous clients aspiring to run a restaurant business with great desire and aplomp. Working with as little as possible to celebrate the theatre of good wine and food visually and acoustically. Brave and dedicated client who wished this premise to evolve over a period of time to create its own myth. There was a need to develop an understanding of local patrons to challenge and encourage them to participate and devour what was brought to them. Many aspirations along the way, the journey continues.


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Completed May 2006 -

30 September 2009

Adolph Residence

Project FAB_0508
A new roof over an existing enclosed courtyard in coastal suburb City Beach. Inspiration was from Alvar Aalto's Maison Le Carre in the country side outside of Paris. A pavilion/verandah was created to rear with the left over skillion roof which allowed for the play of light from the east and west filtering into the space betwixt.


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Completed April 2009

27 September 2009

Lost Highway House

Project PAL_0102

The house sits on a half acre lot. The facade faces 120 degrees of horizon and means space. The front is an address and means less. It places meaning and gives meaning to placement. Back to front, the subject is continually in discussion consciously or unconsciously with climate, with space. It is a living habitable apparatus where light reflects (day) and refracts (night) through controlled and uncontrolled apertures. The plan and section are in direct relation to structural form but the sensual experience of space unfolds from the inside, out. The roof plane is dominate and extends when required and doesn’t when not. There are no doors to an internal corridor. It does not have a family room. Or a sewing room. Or a games room. Or a TV room but does allow exploration of independent and collective living. It is transparently private. Its memory to the origins of architecture is of the modern house that asserts the content to the contexture.



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South West Elevation

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North East Elevation

Worm North Elevation

Entry South

Detail North

North East Elevation

Morning Across Pool


Completed April 2003

28 July 2009

High Street Residence

Project WSC_0306
A new addition and alterations to an existing 1925 circa residence off High Street, East Fremantle.


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South Elevation

East Elevation

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West Elevation

Bird View East

Worm View North East

Bird View North East

North East Elevation

Bird View North East

Bird View North East East

Bird View North East

North East Elevation

North Elevation

North Elevation

North Elevation

Worm View North Elevation

Worm View North West

Bird View North West

Bird View North West

West Elevation

Bird View South West

Project Status: Unbuilt