Balmoral Hillside house is a reconfiguration of a faux Queenslander in the Brisbane suburb of Balmoral.  Despite its hillside site affording expansive views from the upper level, the owners wanted to forge strong connections to the garden for their three young boys.

The new site diagram breaks down public-private space in a graduated manner from street to bedrooms.  Different aspects of the site and suburb are revealed only as one is invited deeper into the private realm.

The edges dissolve to draw the landscape – quite literally – into the house.  Thresholds of stone pebbles drift throughout the house separating public and private, inside and out.  Particular effort has been made in how to occupy the edges of the house, from the room sized window reveal in the Kitchen, to a home office with its window desk acting as a sentinel – a perfect space to gaze beyond the computer screen at the garden and hillside beyond.

The garden becomes an integral aspect of the house with garden spaces becoming rooms within the site and the house strongly connected to site and suburb.