A laneway extension that works as hard as its owner.
Tucked into a Marrickville laneway, this brick and timber workshop by @markerarchitecture is three things at once, a creative workshop, a home office and guest accommodation, all within one considered and compact addition. As the boundaries between home and work continue to blur, spaces like this are becoming increasingly valuable offering the rhythm of a commute without leaving the property, and the flexibility to shift between focus, retreat and hosting as life demands.
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Architecture: Marker Architecture & Design
Photographer: @martinsiegner.studio
Builder: @o_c_carpentry_building
Hydraulic Engineering: Quantum Engineers
Structural Engineering: @cantileverengineers
Our Brick and Wood Workshop in Marrickville provides its owner with a versatile laneway extension that gives them a workshop, home office and guest accommodation all-in-one.
These kinds of multi-faceted spaces are becoming more and more common in our work and are a direct response to the complex relationships that our clients are now having with their residential properties. For many people, their work places and homes are no longer separated by geography and the value of having a detached studio that can offer an ‘at-home commute’ is hugely valuable for maintaining work/life balance and mental health.
These spaces can help to answer challenges to do with work flexibility, retreat time or short or longer term accommodation for friends and family.
Builder: @o_c_carpentry_building
Hydraulic Engineering: Quantum Engineers
Structural Engineering: @cantileverengineers
Photography: @martinsiegner.studio
Old bones, new life.
This 120-year-old terrace had all the charm of its era, but needed a new layout and feel to suit a young family and a vibrant, evolving neighbourhood. With a modest budget, the design by @markerarchitecture cleverly balanced original features with generous, modern updates like hardwood timber doors and a recycled marble terrazzo floor, bringing new life to an old soul.
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Architecture & Interior Design: Marker Architecture & Design
Photographer: @felixsaw
A brief preview of our ‘Twin Rail House’.
The project preserves the historic heart of a 19th century home and adds an extension that gives light and openness to living spaces and an order and flow to domestic areas. A secondary structure connects to the main house via a green-roofed walkway creating a secluded courtyard amongst bustling streets.
The original Victorian house is decorative and playful and we have continued this spirit in the new addition through thoughtful details like vaulted motifs in the steel columns and brick relief arches in the facade.
By tying together the old and the new via stories, details and materials, Twin Rail House feels like a unified family home where elements from the past and present sit comfortably side-by-side.
Images by @placebypaul
Absolutely THRILLED to announce that Ripple House has been shortlisted for the Grand Designs Magazine House of the Year award!
We want to offer our thanks and congratulations to the whole project team as well as the owners and @hatchconstructions for helping to deliver such a thoughtful and expertly delivered project.
Built to nurture generations of family living.
This intergenerational dwelling by @markerarchitecture strips back the excess of modern living to focus on what truly matters, spaces that nurture connection and time shared with loved ones. Balancing simplicity with warmth, it celebrates the enduring value of family life through thoughtful design.
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Architecture: Marker Architecture & Design
Photographer: @simonwhitbreadphoto
Builder: @tmg.building
Stylist & Furniture: @atelier_lab_
An early look at our upcoming project. A refurbishment of a federation-era bungalow, the design takes the language and materials of the original 1920’s house and playfully reinterprets them.
The bold but delicate off-form concrete superstructure is a clean and light counterpoint to the very rich, tactile cladding that speaks to the tiled roofs and red brick walls of the old suburban housing stock that is quickly disappearing.
Hanging plants and green-roofs are incorporated in the new additions to soften the masonry facades and provide as much landscaping as possible.
Visualisations by PlacebyPaul
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We are so excited to announce that Ripple House has been shortlisted for the Architecture Awards in the new houses category!
Ripple House is a project very dear to us. It is on a tricky but spectacular site and embodies so much of what we try to express in our work: Cohabitation with landscape, celebration of materials and creating places for families to share and grow with.
Thank you @architecturensw and congratulations to all of our collaborators @hatchconstructions@sdastructures@landart_home_garden_beyond and @denaikulcsardesign
‘Tallowood’ is a small house in a truly spectacular piece of Australia near the convergence of the Hunter and Williams rivers in Mindaribba County near Maitland. The home sits perched on piers and recycled timber struts, giving it and the landscape room to breath and providing safety from any flood waters that breech the levees. The materials of native hardwood, sandstone and plaster are all organic and tactile but are given sharp architectural formality with defined corners, strong lines and gridded structures. We are loving seeing it take shape and can’t wait to share it with you when it’s finished.
With @martinsiegner.studio@robertplumbbuild@cantileverengineers
As part of their ‘Best of est’ series, @est_living has selected Ripple House as one of their five best Australian Architectural Coastal Homes.
Ripple House shows that a home with significant program can still be respectful of its local environment and deferential to the landscape that it cohabitates. In the words of Sophie Lewis from est “Respect for the native vegetation can be seen from the concrete vehicle bridge on entry, designed around the large gum trees to allow air and water for their roots below. Grass trees and banksias were selected to reference the home’s charred and natural timber exterior material palette”.
Thank you @sophlew_says and @est_living for featuring our project so beautifully and for continuing to showcase thoughtful, respectful and enduring architecture.
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We are very excited to be shortlisted as a finalist in the @hia_au Awards, Outdoor Project category, with our Ripple House build in Clareville.
Where collaboration with nature has enabled a true sanctuary to be created.
