Six Ways House | Kennedy Nolan

North Fitzroy is a nineteenth century neighbourhood highly valued for it’s heritage fabric, making for an interesting and challenging context for a new house. This site has some idiosyncrasies – opposite the much–loved Tramways hotel, on a ‘five–ways’ roundabout and oriented east–west, it’s principal aspect facing south. This house replaces a 1980’s dwelling which had some nostalgic appeal but was poorly constructed, dark, inflexible and lacking connection to garden. The limitations of the old house largely defined a brief for its replacement – a thermally efficient, light filled dwelling with an emphasis on connection to landscape.