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Vision Magazine
Vision spoke with project architect Toby Breakspear
about a renovation that unshackles its owners to
experience far more pleasurable spaces and a
sustainable future:
You’ve transformed two houses – introverts
really – and created something much more
exuberant. Was that your ambition?
That was definitely our intention. It was stacked,
top and bottom as separate apartments. Our
clients wanted one house. Unifying two houses
was a challenge. We had to link those disconnected
volumes and spaces in a way that felt as if they were
destined to be that way.
Easier said than done with a common wall.
Basically we punched holes in the old and
connected the key spaces. That freed up rooms
to fit the plan – there were fewer rooms required
than we started with. That allowed us to open up
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