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LOCATION

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CLIENT

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Residential Alteration & Addition

Mt Hawthorn, Western Australia

Under Construction

Private

502m²

158m² existing — 42m2 addition

Craig Nener

Basim Balous

Michelle Kar

Jordan Pol

A dappled outdoor room beneath a peppermint tree, Sunroom is a filtered space of light and shadow—bridging home and garden with precision and calm.

Mt Hawthorn, WA

Sunroom is a carefully calibrated renovation and outdoor living addition to a 1930s cottage in Mount Hawthorn—designed as a space to dwell within light, rather than shield from it.

Embedded into the sloping garden and nestled beneath a mature weeping peppermint tree and olive, the new structure acts as a shaded threshold between house and landscape. A reinterpretation and extension of the 1980s lean-to, the new sunroom sits as a steel portal frame, anchored into a red pigmented concrete slab that forms both floor and furniture—wrapping into a generous bench for sitting, resting, and retreating.

Frameless glazing provides year-round enclosure while maintaining an open connection to the garden. Above, a suspended ceiling of translucent fibre-reinforced plastic grating filters sunlight into a soft, dappled interior—turning harsh Perth heat into gentle shade.

Internally, the project reconfigures bathrooms and adds a new bedroom to the existing cottage. Each bathroom receives its own light aperture—skylit voids that funnel natural light into intimate, atmospheric spaces.

Born from the idea of a sunroom, the project is both innovative and poetic—responding to the climate with restraint, lightness, and invention.