Seaforth | Architectural Projects

Within the dilapidated grand Victorian state listed terrace, former boarding house, the brief was for a new paediatric sleep clinic with the ability to revert the building to a single dwelling use.

This required substantial upgrades to the existing structure and a suite of services, including a lift, and innovative fire and BCA and engineering performance solutions as no original fabric could be removed.

The new works and services were complex and challenging because of the State listing as no original fabric could be removed.

The approach was to restore the building and key spaces and loosely fit new uses into rooms. New work expressed as distinct timber insertions into the restored spaces provide an enhanced legibility of the original plan.

The project recovers the heritage significance of this important state heritage item in Millers Point via an innovative new use that funds the conservation works but is reversible.