VIVARIUM BY ARCHITECTURE ARCHITECTURE

In Thornbury in Melbourne’s inner-north, the long wide streets that connect the suburb to the parklands of Merri and Darebin Creeks are dotted with a steady mix of brick and weatherboard houses in varying conditions of repair and revitalization. As in so many other Australian suburbs, this rhythm is periodically, and with increasing regularity, interrupted by new development: older homes disappear and something newer, larger and heavier emerges in their place, their bulky forms creeping out toward the boundary fences, relinquishing formerly generous gardens to maximize internal space.

For homeowners Kimberley and Justin, watching these permutations unfold in their