Located in Teneriffe on the Brisbane River, the aspirations of the brief sought to provide a young family with two kids growing into their teenage years with their own private spaces and manage work-from-home comfort. Maintaining an aesthetic continuity with the current apartment, a material palette and structural language echoed throughout the Woolstore was employed. 

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Sympathetic to its heritage fabric, the additional bedroom sits snuggly with the existing trusses, setting up a datum for internal windows and doorways on the mezzanine level. A visual connection from entry through the staircase to the living space was essential, ensuring natural light would filter through the deep plan. 

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The perforated staircase and office joinery were observed as a single piece of furniture, maximising space and functionality. With a joyful visual connection between floors, the stairs work as a stage for plants, books, light and conversation.

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The enclosed bedroom carefully provides joinery step storage for the mezzanine sleeping with a sneaky porthole window with a river view. Mindful of its origins, the allowance for light to filter through the apartment from the clerestory windows above keeps this river loft as light as the breezes it captures.

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