Students were asked to design a house for two persons where at least one resident was working from home, on a compact block of a row house in Penrith. Students picked the occupation of the persons. For final assignment they needed to accommodate an extension, as a family (a mother with a kid)would come to live with the previous occupants. Students were asked to adapt their house to accommodate this unusual combination. The most successful projects found ways to use the unusual responses to the client and site.

The site is 21 Thornton Drive,Penrith, 10 min walk from Penrith train station. The site is 4,5 m wide x 27m long and has two frontages. Students were asked to consider both streets equal as active streets where people walk and enjoy life. Checking the views, occupying the field(the whole site) and allow for avoid (courtyard) and a possible underground connections were essential. No openings were allowed on the bounding walls.

Students were asked to treat the facade as a part of the street where people walk. No cars or car parking were allowed. Architecture as a part of the city and the openings were the two main themes. Things considered were: student’s take on the brief, circulation and organisation, sectional quality and lighting within space.

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Students were asked to design a house for two persons where at least one resident was working from home, on a compact block of a row house in Penrith. Students picked the occupation of the persons. For final assignment they needed to accommodate an extension, as a family (a mother with a kid)would come to live with the previous occupants. Students were asked to adapt their house to accommodate this unusual combination. The most successful projects found ways to use the unusual responses to the client and site.

The site is 21 Thornton Drive,Penrith, 10 min walk from Penrith train station. The site is 4,5 m wide x 27m long and has two frontages. Students were asked to consider both streets equal as active streets where people walk and enjoy life. Checking the views, occupying the field(the whole site) and allow for avoid (courtyard) and a possible underground connections were essential. No openings were allowed on the bounding walls.

Students were asked to treat the facade as a part of the street where people walk. No cars or car parking were allowed. Architecture as a part of the city and the openings were the two main themes. Things considered were: student’s take on the brief, circulation and organisation, sectional quality and lighting within space.

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