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93a Hill Street, West Hobart, Tasmania: The adaptive re-use makes little obvious change from the street, with a new domestic picket fence and planted buffer zone creating an arrival threshold between public street and front door. Photo by Peter Whyte.
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93a Hill Street, West Hobart, Tasmania: A rear room and unusable yard turned “inside – out” forms a central external courtyard, introducing sunlight, warmth, spaciousness and borrowed views over treetops, gardens and roofscapes. Photo by Peter Whyte.
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93a Hill Street, West Hobart, Tasmania: Partial views hint at what is beyond, with important existing features retained and new independent elements having clean lined detail and an emphasis on change in scale and intimacy. Photo by Peter Whyte.
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93a Hill Street, West Hobart, Tasmania: The upper bedroom level opens to a sunny roof terrace and retained brick gable marking the previous roof form, with views over trees and garden greenery to the distant River Derwent. Photo by Peter Whyte.
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93a Hill Street, West Hobart, Tasmania: The kitchen forms a spatial divide within the main living volume and is designed to be a bold contemporary insertion with clean lined detail. Photo by Peter Whyte.
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93a Hill Street, West Hobart, Tasmania: The contemporary kitchen combines restrained colour and natural hardwood timber bench tops with low energy lighting for functional illumination and dramatic impact when desired. Photo by Peter Whyte.
The adaptive re-use of 93a Hill Street, West Hobart, transformed a modest 20th Century red brick church into an inspiring private residence – a place of intimacy and personal identity that is spacious and light, expansive and uplifting. Previous additions to the original church left only a small open yard in the cold south-eastern corner of the site. We demolished the rear room turning it and the yard “inside-out” to create a central, sunny, external courtyard with bedroom wings on either side. From the street entrance a sequence of transition spaces progress from the public domain through increasingly private living areas, culminating in the courtyard, which brings natural light, warmth and a sense of spaciousness into the home.