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19 Waterloo Street

SJB

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Creativity
Eco-Social Impact
Total
JURY VOTES
House
7.26
7.34
7.76
7.24
7.4
Maja Bernvill
Maja Bernvill Creative Director at Specific Generic
7
6
8
7
7
Sanchit Arora
Sanchit Arora Principal Architect at Renesa Studio
7
8
8
7
7.5
Tugba Okcuoglu
Tugba Okcuoglu Creative Concept and Customer Experience Developer at Ingka Centers
Unique and location-specific design...
7.01
7.08
8.86
8.04
7.75
Justine Fox
Justine Fox Founder and Colour Specialist at Studio Justine Fox
7.91
7.19
7.62
7.56
7.57
Stéphane Bernier
Stéphane Bernier Partner and Director of Retail Strategy and Innovation at Ædifica
7.13
7.68
8.34
6.69
7.46
Jan Clostermann
Jan Clostermann Founder and Director at CLOU Architects
7
6.5
8
6.5
7
Jorge Mendez Caceres
Jorge Mendez Caceres Creative Director at BDG Architecture & Design
7.79
7.63
7.27
7.11
7.45
Marie Hesseldahl
Marie Hesseldahl Partner and Head of Interior and Product Design at 3xn
7
8
8
8
7.75
Adi Utama
Adi Utama Global Office Development at JetBrains
7
7
8
7
7.25
Jason Chan
Jason Chan Founder at Jason Design Group
7.33
7.33
7.33
7.13
7.28
Bin Ju
Bin Ju Founder and Chief Design Director at Horizontal Design
6.98
7.54
7.86
7.54
7.48
Marie-Andree Busque
Marie-Andree Busque Director Interior Architecture at Sid Lee Architecture
8
9
8
8
8.25
Constance Guisset
Constance Guisset Founder at Constance Guisset Studio
7.71
7.13
7.18
7.8
7.46
Islam El Mashtooly
Islam El Mashtooly Creative Director at OBMI
7
7
7
7
7
Liyun Hao
Liyun Hao Founder and Design Director at EVD
7
7
6.93
6.28
6.8
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Functionality
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JURY VOTES
Material
6.28
6.47
7.11
6.98
6.71
Maja Bernvill
Maja Bernvill Creative Director at Specific Generic
4
5
5
6
5
Sanchit Arora
Sanchit Arora Principal Architect at Renesa Studio
7.5
6.5
8
8
7.5
Justine Fox
Justine Fox Founder and Colour Specialist at Studio Justine Fox
Love the reuse local materials and...
6.36
8.32
6.73
8.11
7.38
Stéphane Bernier
Stéphane Bernier Partner and Director of Retail Strategy and Innovation at Ædifica
5
5.31
7.85
7.79
6.49
Jan Clostermann
Jan Clostermann Founder and Director at CLOU Architects
6
6.5
7.5
6.5
6.63
Jorge Mendez Caceres
Jorge Mendez Caceres Creative Director at BDG Architecture & Design
7.38
7.9
5
5
6.32
Marie Hesseldahl
Marie Hesseldahl Partner and Head of Interior and Product Design at 3xn
6
6
8
8
7
Adi Utama
Adi Utama Global Office Development at JetBrains
6
6
8
8
7
Jason Chan
Jason Chan Founder at Jason Design Group
7.33
6.4
7.75
7.02
7.13
Marie-Andree Busque
Marie-Andree Busque Director Interior Architecture at Sid Lee Architecture
7
7
8
8
7.5
Bin Ju
Bin Ju Founder and Chief Design Director at Horizontal Design
6.38
6.62
8.07
6.78
6.96
Constance Guisset
Constance Guisset Founder at Constance Guisset Studio
5
5
5
5
5
Islam El Mashtooly
Islam El Mashtooly Creative Director at OBMI
7
7
7
7
7
Liyun Hao
Liyun Hao Founder and Design Director at EVD
7
7
7.65
6.5
7.04
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GRAND JURY VOTES
Shortlisted - House of the Year
8.76
8.63
9.01
8.54
8.74
Katrina Yin
Katrina Yin Design Manager at JDS Development Group
Really lovely use of a great amount...
8.49
8.02
8.54
8.6
8.41
Felipe Mora
Felipe Mora Founder and Creative Director at F05 Studio
overall amazing project, congratula...
9.5
9.5
9.5
9.5
9.5
Anthony Monica
Anthony Monica Architect and Asst. Professor of Architecture at Belmont University
9.08
9.01
9.57
9.5
9.29
Jio Li
Jio Li Founder and Design Director at a9 architects
8.73
8.62
8.45
7.62
8.36
Agata Kurzela
Agata Kurzela Founder and Design Director at Agata Kurzela Studio
The project manages to make a joyfu...
8
8
9
7.5
8.13
Designer
Client
SJB
Floor area
30 ㎡
Completion
2022
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With a footprint of 30 sqm and a Jacques Tati-esque façade of recycled and broken brick, this house playfully engages with the street through arrangement and geometry of openings. Ultimately, it's about sustainability, doing more with less, reusing a site, reusing materials, and better using an existing connected place.

The site was buried amongst the chaos of warehouses and terraces that serve Sydney’s rag trade. A corner terrace with decades of architectural detritus had engulfed the site with a never-ending cascade of additions and lean-to’s with the odd weed surviving between the cracks of the concrete path. Our intent was to deliver a mixed-use house, breaking up the site to deliver more. Less for us, but more for others. Our ambition: a shop, a self-contained flat and a home. Three uses out of one.

The project is an exercise in limiting footprint but expanding connections. The interior volumes are arranged to borrow outlook from the city. You are at once in the city and part of its fabric, but removed from it - still afforded a quiet oasis. Using a split section, the stair is the pinwheel around which the house moves. More like a tree house than a real house, the dwelling is divided into spaces that are served or in service. Service spaces are short with 2.1m ceilings – storage, kitchen, robe and ensuite, served spaces are grand with 3.6m ceilings – study, living and bedroom.

Embedded into the project is a discrete ambition to incorporate art and support artists – to reengage artists in the making of buildings, with the intent of embedding specific cultural identity into the built fabric. The front gate is cast bronze by Mika Utzon-Popov, and an all-enveloping landscape by Nicholas Harding titled Eora is able to be viewed from the street. ‘Eora’ was the word used by Aboriginal people of Sydney to describe where they came from when asked by the British invaders what the place of first settlement was called. The landscape depicts the native terrain pre-colonisation. It’s gesturing to the street is a glimpse to the past. Landscaping by Dangar Barrin Smith is sprawled across the house as a different type of artistry, helping to lower the urban heat island effect while adding to the network of wild urban gardens.

The project followed Passivhaus principles but chose to amend them to better suit the Sydney context - for example, the house employed the internal insulation lining promoted by Passivhaus, conducted a blower test, and incorporates an internal air handing unit, but also chose to make the dwelling as openable as possible - to encourage cross ventilation. Additionally, all appliances utilise heat pump technology. The house is double glazed and does not employ air conditioning, rather the design uses passive design principles of facade depth and orientation to ensure summer sun protection and winter sun penetration.

The dwelling is 90% self-sufficient from an electric position, using rooftop PV's and battery storage.