Acute House by OOF! architecture

Acute House is a renovation project by OOF! architecture to transform an old house into a compact modern house on a triangular plot in Melbourne.

Architect: OOF! architecture
Location: Melbourne, Australia
Photography: Nic Granleese

Project's description: The severe limitations of a tiny, very triangular site and the demanding heritage context have resulted in a pointy new wedge of house that is designed to exploit its problems.

The original, and extremely decrepit, Victorian weatherboard cottage had become impossible to inhabit but was well loved by the neighbourhood as well as its new owners.

We tried to retain its weathered character by re-using as much original fabric as possible from warped weatherboards and fence palings to random accumulations such as door knobs, vents and street numbers. Like fragile museum artefacts, these were carefully removed, labelled, stored and re-installed in their original location on a new mount that not only highlights their charms by contrast but allows the house to live again in a new way.

The photo of the original house before renovate

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