58 Iris Garden Square

The brief for this project is for an old pre-war house to be converted into a design office cum studio. 

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The fence was designed as a series of walls . A tall off-form concrete wall with random port holes forms one part of the street frontage — the holes were formed to provide views, ventilation and convey a sense of fun. Another part of the fence is built using recycled roof tiles laid in a bearer bond and set in a large planter. 

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A brief was developed around the existing frame — using the ground floor columns to define the reception spaces and meeting rooms with studios on both floors. Many of the existing walls were removed to create open floor studios.

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The main roof line was extended over the new studio with two geometric pods anchoring each end of the space: an office and a library. The roof line stops short of the boundary and a long planter mediates between the studio wall and the fence. The high ceiling means that the studios on both ground and first floors can have visual contact with each other.