2020 National Architecture Awards: National Commendation for Residential Architecture – Houses (Alterations and Additions)

Jury citation

This small but thoughtful addition has transformed the way its site is occupied. A new pavilion, carefully sited to create a garden court, as well as an entry and gallery space for the existing house, has met the challenge of a house facing south onto a much-loved garden. The pavilion lets the house sit in the garden, rather than look onto it. The language of the pavilion – lightness, slenderness and warmth – is filtered back into the existing villa, which has undergone minimal change to its footprint but a judicious reworking of living areas and openings. This addition has changed the way the site is occupied diurnally and seasonally, and shows us the transformative value of design thinking.

Architect Troppo Architects; Project team Tain Patterson, James Kermond; Builder Hocking Constructions; Structural engineer John Bowley Consulting Engineer; Landscape consultant Wax Design.

Outside [the] Box is located in Goodwood, South Australia, on the land of the Kaurna people.