O HOUSE BY MARSTON ARCHITECTS
The adaptation of old housing stock is a common challenge presented to residential architects, who are tasked with rectifying the failings of outdated buildings and poorly planned additions. “People keep extending and extending until you get what I call a ‘fat house’ with no light and no ventilation,” says the director of Marston Architects, Vivianne Marston. In the case of O House, Vivianne and her team have adapted a squat brick box in the Sydney suburb of Manly – formerly housing two duplexes, and unsympathetically extended over the years – into a light and bright residential home that effortlessly flows up a
