Borrowed Garden House by Topology Studio is an alteration and addition to a Victorian house in Albert Park, Melbourne, shaped by a tight site and neighbouring gardens. By setting the new facades inward, framing trees and extending a masonry garden wall through the living space, the project uses borrowed landscape to make a constrained urban home feel larger while retaining privacy.
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Chapters
0:00 – A Tight Inner-City Site
0:40 – Albert Park and Heritage
1:47 – Borrowing the Garden
3:17 – Reworking the Existing House
4:29 – Making Room for the Pool
5:18 – A Shared Living Space
6:39 – Material Restraint
7:36 – Light Old and New
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Location – Albert Park, Victoria, Australia
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Film and photography – Anthony Richardson
Production – Simple Dwelling
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