Queensland
Brisbane
Little Green Cabin goes beyond the standard house extension approach, instead offering an enjoyable backyard getaway.
Following the removal of earlier additions to the existing house, a new covered link leads to a cabin positioned adjacent the rear boundary. This planning allows both house and cabin to look into a central landscaped courtyard.
The new structure also progressively brings people from the elevated house down to ground, reconnecting the house with the landscape.
The cabin interior accommodates an office, bathroom, kitchenette, and a flexible space used both for visiting relatives and as a breakout for a family with active boys.
While the design features the clean lines of modernism, quirky colours that continue from interior to exterior hark back to the fibro holiday houses once common along Queensland’s coast.
Little Green Cabin’s humble material palette, compact size, and climate responsive design show that architecture can still be about simple pleasures.
Our brief was for an office, extra bathroom and bedroom.
The benefits have exceeded far and beyond this: we gained an outdoor entertaining area, games room, music studio, cocktail bar, place to watch late night movies and check on elderly neighbours.
The steps are a spot for tea drinking, ice blocks and watching wildlife.
Travelling family have a private place of their own that feels like a second home.
Everything existing is amplified and more accessible.
The build incorporates our love of gardening, mid-century modern and Australian design and we are thrilled with the result.
The Australian Institute of Architects acknowledges First Nations peoples as the Traditional Custodians of the lands, waters, and skies of the continent now called Australia.
We express our gratitude to their Elders and Knowledge Holders whose wisdom, actions and knowledge have kept culture alive.
We recognise First Nations peoples as the first architects and builders. We appreciate their continuing work on Country from pre-invasion times to contemporary First Nations architects, and respect their rights to continue to care for Country.
