2015 Gallery
Commendation: Emerging Architecture Practice
Baber Studio for 'Shutter House', Extension to an original Queenslander.
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Key design principles adopted in the Shutter House were: the valuing of the backyard; keeping the extension modest in size and scale relative to its neighbours, and an adaptation of a hybrid language of wrapped screens and outhouses that typical are to its context.
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