Completed 2025 Photographer: Riss Visual Studio
This project began in 2021 with a phone call from Brisbane, while I was living in Sydney. A long-time friend with a vision for her family's new home in Camp Hill - timeless but modern. A fresh take on a Queenslander. Not a replication. A new home that felt like it had always belonged.
The site had commanding views over the Brisbane skyline, but the west facing deck needed to connect to the east facing pool. A sloping block meant that the program had to be contained within a house that appeared as a two-storey home from both the front and the back. This was a home for a young family who wanted to live between the sky and the ground, between inside and out, without feeling disjointed.
Material choices drove a lot of the early thinking. The brick helps the garage recede from the street, so the deck above becomes the part of the house that greets you. The brick carries through into the two-storey stairwell void, bringing the outside in. At the rear, brick steps lead down to the pool. One continuous ribbon tying the house together.
The first-floor plan stretches from the city view at the front to the pool at the rear. The kitchen sits at the middle, connecting both, where it benefits from the northern light.
In October, Larissa from Riss Visual joined me on site ,just as the final trades were wrapping up. I wanted to capture the house in that almost-finished moment, not picture-perfect architectural shots, but the socks-only moment when the protective wrapping is starting to peel off and the house is just about to become a home.
