Whynot Street Stage 1 + 2

2003 / 2009

The Whynot Street Tea Room project is situated in a quintessential Brisbane backyard for a suitably parochial West End couple and their boys. However, the project resists notions of typical Queenslander extensions, in the sense that it seeks to create a series of spaces on equal terms with the existing worker’s cottage – timbered and handcrafted, and the yard – offering notions of movement and occupation.

It is a project fixed by path, material, and a single, mature silky oak planted by the family. The tea room is constructed of an expressed spotted gum frame with unpainted fibro core, wrapped in ubiquitous skin of hardwood decking folded into stairs & platforms, and draped along the walkway as a building skirt.

Images: Camera Obscura, Mark Cranitch