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Family Matters

• In the quiet, suburban area of Mount Gravatt in Brisbane's south, an existing 1970s residential dwelling has been transformed, and is now almost unrecognisable. Young architectural practice Alcorn Middleton has renovated and elevated the original house with the addition of two new pavilion buildings, now able to accommodate a multigenerational extended family. With the premise to renovate a childhood home in the most sustainable way possible, a threesection build was envisioned to connect both architecture and inhabitants together, allowing all to essentially live under one roof.

Centred around an open-air garden courtyard, outdoor pathways unite the two new pavilions with the original home across a single plot of 596 square metres. One pavilion is reserved solely for sleeping, the other for congregating, with the third structure combining both these

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