Brookfield Farm House
The brookfield farmhouse is a project that seeks to define it’s place in a broad landscape, holding civic aspirations on a micro scale, while exploring notions of prospect and refuge.
Ideally located on a North facing hillside, the existing house was a well-considered design exercise in elevated steel construction. While well built, the fitout had reached end-of-life, and the new owners sought a more direct connection from house to land.
The new social spaces (pool, outdoor room and fireplace) are arranged externally to contain a portion of the hillside – a controllable landscape within the broader expanse of sheep paddocks and tall grass. Each room and structure is considered as a building around a town square – defining the entertaining areas and public face of the house.
Semi-public living space and guest quarters occupy the lower level, completing the ‘square’ and providing a buffer to the elevated private spaces above. Maintaining the 3.6m steel grid of the existing house, internal partitions are removed to create a larger kitchen, and added to create additional bedrooms overlooking the landscapes below.
A house as a city.
Status: Completed
Builder: Jon Tucker Constructions
Structural Engineer: AD Structures
Original Architect: Scott Mortimer
Photography: Christopher Frederick Jones
